Slovenia 2023
+/- 1 °C: In Search of Well-Tempered Architecture
Title: +/- 1 °C: In Search of Well-Tempered Architecture
Commissioner: Maja Vardjan, Museum of Architecture and Design
Curator: Jure Grohar, Eva Gusel, Maša Mertelj, Anja Vidic, Matic Vrabič
Exhibitors: Anna Bach, Eugeni Bach (A&EB), Marcello Galiotto, Alessandra Rampazzo (AMAA), Urban Petranovič, Davor Počivašek (Arhitekti Počivašek Petranovič), Niklas Fanelsa (Atelier Fanelsa), Alicja Bielawska, Simone De Iacobis, Aleksandra Kędziorek, Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Laura Bonell, Daniel López-Dòriga (Bonell+Dòriga), Radim Louda, Paul Mouchet (CENTRAL Offau), Maxime Delvaux, Aidas Krutejavas (KSFA Aidas Krutejavas Studio For Architecture), Roland Reemaa (LLRRLLRR), Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez-Barat (MBL), Ana Victoria Munteanu, Daniel Tudor Munteanu, Daniel Norell, Einar Rodhe (Norell Rodhe), Matteo Ghidoni (Salottobuono), Gordon Selbach,Pablo Canga, Anna Herreros (SOLAR), Jakob Sellaoui (Studio Jakob Sellaoui), Hana Mohar, Frane Stančić (Studio Ploca), Susanne Brorson (Studio Susanne Brorson), Ana Kreč (Svet vmes), Janja Šušnjar, Mireia Luzárraga, Alejandro Muiño (TAKK Architecture), Carolina Caicedo, Xavi Llarch Font, Suzanne O’Connell, Mariana Pestana (The Decorators), Léone Drapeaud, Manuel León Fanjul, Johnny Leya (Traumnovelle), Gaetan Brunet, Chloé Valadié (UR_BAU)
Although ecology, understood by many in architecture as ‘energy efficiency’, is an inescapable contextual component of modernity that defines architecture, it is addressed by architecture rather paradoxically. Instead of critically re-articulating its conceptual starting points, architecture tends to address ecological issues exclusively through applied technology hidden inside walls. ‘Energy efficiency’; thus appears as an entirely separate and independent component of a building. The vernacular architecture of previous centuries did not know such a demarcation. In the past, ecology generated and was inseparable from architecture itself, which means that buildings were ecological already in their conceptual design.
The pavilion addresses ecology through the collective research of 50 architects, who have analysed examples of vernacular buildings where ecology is an intrinsic part of architectural design. Vernacular architecture is thus understood as a living specimen of relevant energy principles and can be used as the basis for a critical reinterpre- tation of contemporary architec- tural production.
VENUE:
Arsenale
OPENING TIMES:
May 20 – Sept 30 Tue – Sun, 11am – 7pm
Oct 1 – Nov 26 Tue – Sun, 10am – 6pm
ADDRESS
Arsenale, Arsenale, Castello, 30122, Venice, Italy
