REPAIR exhibition – All photos: courtesy of the Australian pavilion.
Venice 2018 -“Architecture is a gift and Earth is our client” said Venice Biennale curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelly Mc Namara in an interview with Archipanic. Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright of Baracco+Wright Architects and artist Linda Tegg responded to such statement by transforming the Australian Pavilion at Giardini into field of vegetation, allowing visitors to enter a physical dialogue between architecture and the endangered plant community.
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The very first environmental consequence of every architecture project breaking ground is the occupation and disruption of the soil where Nature thrives. 10.000 plants including 65 endangered species of Western Plains Grasslands, flourish inside and outside of the Pavilion, to disrupt the viewing conditions through which architecture is usually understood.
“Consequences of the disregard of natural systems are now being felt. How can we repair the ground’s public and social relevance? We are asking to architects to look anew at the ground and how we treat it.” Says to Archipanic curator Louise Wright of Baracco+Wright.
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This component of the exhibition, entitled Grasslands Repair, will serve as a reminder of what is at stake when we occupy land – just one per cent of these threatened species are left in their native ecosystem. On show experimental video series, entitled Ground, showcasing fifteen Australian projects that unpack diverse iterations of repair. On the ceiling, special lighting simulating the sun’s energy allow the plants to survive inside the Pavilion.
“Australia’s buildings and cityscapes have largely been constructed to separate people from the natural environment”. The Repair exhibition aims to advocate a role for architecture among the many players it takes to restore something. ay Mauro Baracco and Louise Wright. “We have often struggled with our relationship as architects when considering the use of land – it’s no small act. We believe there is a role for architecture to actively engage with the repair of the places.”
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Photos: courtesy of the Australian Pavilion.
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