4am by dePaor Architects at Venice Biennale
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dePaor Architects present a folly in pleated linen and lavendered softwood, called “4am”, in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the Giardini of Venice. The project constructs a liminal space, between two bespoke subject objects, as a domestic shadowplay.
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‘From this point on I came to regard architecture as the instrument which permits the unfolding of a thing’
A. Rossi, ‘A scientific autobiography’
The square footprint casts the shadow of Adam’s house in Paradise.
© Anna Hofheinz
A square plan is an economical speculation beyond the vernacular, which is difficult to extend.
The approach is either oblique or flat and dictates the site.
A cut pyramid roof denies the gable and the small politics of front and back.
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Reduced continuity between inside and outside multiplies the encounter between here and there.
The tactic and strategy of servant and served plot the room plan.
At the half landing, nothing happens.
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’Transformed and displaced images, impressions, occurances which have moved me deeply (often without my knowing it), forms which I sense are closely associated with me, even though I am incapable of identifying them, which makes them all the more troubling to me.’ A. Giacometti, The Palace at 4 am
4am is staged between hylo and hedra, a shade and a stone after Dürer’s Melancholia I of 1514.
At 4am the air duct fouls the upholstered dogleg staircase, which ascends to descend at the fire escape of the Palace.
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The planed and lavendered 2” x 4” softwood cribbage is glued and screwed at 400 mm centres.
Beneath the transoms, the pleated 600 thread count linen closets the lambswool treads of the house at 4am.
‘The wardrobe is filled with linen
There are even moonbeams which I can unfold.’
A. Breton, ‘Revolver aux cheveux blancs’
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I saw it… It really very impressive. Generally, I recommend foe everybody to visit Biennale…
‘The project constructs a liminal space, between two bespoke subject objects, as a domestic shadowplay.’
It almost makes me angry reading pretentious drivel such as this.
Would someone please explain what the architect is trying to say here, because it just sounds like bull?
i too saw this. i thought it was unique. fragile feeling. very intriguing. unlike some of the more academic exhibits, this is art.
i especially love the rawness of the materials, the linen inside the wood frame. i also like the play with scale, everyone looks like a lost child set against it… the half light. beautiful.
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