Icarus open air museum
OUR TASK
The project aim to extend the Icarus pavilion life cicle, after the end of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2018.
The project of reuse is a pilot experimentconducted to evaluate feasibility, duration, cost, adverse events of a full scale research project called MEPART.
Mepart deals with the upcycling of installation to reduce the waste of temporary exhibitions.
THE CONTEXT
The Port and the Fall of Icarus was a part of the extended program of the Dutch Pavilion, ‘Work, Body, Leisure’, for the Venice Biennale 2018, curated by Marina Otero Verzier. The project was composed of an installation inside the Dutch Pavilion and a public installation at Riva dei SetteMartiri in Venice. The external pavilion in Riva Sette Martiri was designed by Hamed Khosravi, Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin and Filippo LaFleur.
The installation, destined to landfill at the end of Biennale, was assembled in modular corten steel coated sandwich panels and it was re-installed as museum in the Municipality of Corbola.
The upcycling of the installation represents the pilot project of a wider program, called MEPART, promoted the by Heritage Asset Management S.B.R.L.
THE TOPIC
Every year in the world there takes place several temporary exhibitions related to the fields of art and architecture. The case study of Biennale of Venice shows us that this kind of events create different polarities in the city which attracts people to new temporary structures, like installiations or pavillions. Usually, the lifecycle of temporary structures goes from the preliminary idea to its demolition.
Which is the problem ?
Temporary exhibitions produce tons of construction and demolition waste per year.
The goal that MEPART wants to achieve is to reuse materials of the original installation and to obtain manufacts of the same value or even more.
How?
Thinking about the project in terms of a reusable material’s catalogue. Professionals before the installation is built produce a catalogue and they can upload it in the MEPART website. By doing this they enlarge the available material database. Extremely important is providing opportunities for users and making it easily accessibile. The client exposes interests and needs to local designers and step by step the structure is redefined in order to better respond to the environment. Thanks to an early communication of the available materials the new site can be already chosen and the structure can be redesigned in advance. By doing this that’s no need do find a warehouse and the transport envolved in the storage process can be avoided. This process can be an opportunity to take advantage of these structures.So they could be the trigger for social cohesion and new activities in the city. It is definetly a big step towards the reduction of eccessive consumpition and the making of a better future.
THE PROJECT
At the end of Biennale the panels were disassembly and cataloging. The project proposal provides to rebuilt the installation with a new layout, according with the request of Corbola Municipality. The Port and the Fall of Icarushas has been re-functionalized as a small open-air museum close to the archaeological area of the ancient Roman Via Popilia.
