NATURE COLLABORATIONS
La Biennale Architettura di Venezia
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In the context of the exhibition "TRACES OF CENTURIES & FUTURE STEPS" at this year's Biennale in Venice, 3deluxe is showing an imaginative wall relief which reflects aspects of the transdisciplinary office's design cosmos!
Symbiotic architectures, surreal interiors and picturesque buildings evolving from graphic spatial structures; nature in the form of persistent plants and roaming mountain goats, capturing space within reef-like, seemingly grown high-rise structures. With this dense wall collage, 3deluxe is exploring new aesthetic possibilities of architecture within the suspenseful thematic framework of nature and artificiality.
As official part of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, the exhibition presents 3deluxe and other architects from 6 continents, representing 26 countries, brought together in an extraordinary combination with each other as well as with the Chinese artist Ying Tianqi.
3deluxe conceived a large-format mural in which the versatile design world of the practice is expressed in a mix of collage and relief. In it, the architects reflect old and new approaches to design: on the one hand they apply principles of liveliness, such as self-organisation or symbiosis, to architecture and interior design and, on the other, they use set pieces from nature as mediators between technoform and biomorphic design strategies.
In its overall graphic effect, the image is reminiscent of historical tapestries or frescos. This creates a relationship with the exhibition location, the Venetian-Byzantine Palazzo Bembo. However, in its materiality, it takes up the second part of the exhibition title, “FUTURE STEPS”.
A facing panel has been placed in front of the historic wall of the Palazzo, on which the HI-MACS® solid surface panels printed with futuristic architectural fragments and techno-form patterns has been mounted. The surface of the mineral material panels is partial shaped based on the graphical artwork. This shows the easy fabrication of the material.
The work plays around two historic doors, thereby enhancing even further the contrast between exhibit and exhibition building. Between the doors at eye-level is a 2.90m long continuous block of acrylic stone, which shows a triptych of futuristic architectural visions.
| Type | Art |
| Location | Palazzo Bembo di Venezia |
| Year | 2012 |
| Status | Completed |
| Client | Collateral Event |
| Collaborators | HI-MACS®, Candido Hermida |
| Image credits | Sascha Jahnke |
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