0170 Reduce / Reuse / Recycle:
German Pavilion for La Biennale di Architettura di Venezia 2012 location La Biennale di Venezia, Giardini year 2011-2012 activity -- client Bundesrepublik Deutschland vertreten durch das Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung size -- budget -- architect Muck Petzet und Partner Architekten team Andreas Ferstl, Luise Angelmaier general comissioner Muck Petzet team: Luise Angelmaier, Judith Csiki, Saskia Hendy, Alex Pixley exhibition design Konstantin Grcic team: Olivia Herms photography RRR / Future Documentation / EO visual design Thomas Mayfried, Swantje Grundler project management and communications Sally Below / sally below cultural affairs team: Simone Bogner, Ute Riechers, Viola van Beek, Friederike Krickel, Maria Mußotter, Julia Krieger, Hjördis Hoffmann, André Herzig and in Venice Tomas Ewald executive architect Dr. Clemens F. Kusch, cfk architetti team: Martin Weigert catalogue editors: Muck Petzet, Florian Heilmeyer Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag ISBN 978-3-7757-3425-7 (english)
Conceived, curated and realised by Muck Petzet, the exhibition introduced a value system of waste management, of avoidance, reuse and recovery, into the context of architecture. In Germany, working on existing buildings has become the most important task for architects. Our work as architects is more and more about resizing, revitalising, converting or completing. The existing building stock - architecture itself - has to be recognised as the most important resource for the development of our built environment. The exhibition presented 16 projects showcasing a new attitude of affirmation and respect towards existing architecture.
The exhibition itself was exemplary of this affirmative approach: the perception of the often-demonised 'Nazi'-pavilion was changed with the most minimal means. Simply by turning the key, the main entrance was blocked and an inconspicuous ramp turned a former fire exit into the main entrance. These minimal interventions broke the sacral and axially symmetric composition of the pavilion, enabling an exhibition across un-hierarchically interlocked rooms. There was no purpose-built exhibition architecture and the large-scale pictures by Erica Overmeer were directly wallpapered onto the walls of the pavilion. The exhibition design by Konstantin Grcic appropriated typical Venetian street furniture - such as the high water footbridges and park benches - and avoided any explicit newly designed objects. The graphic design of Thomas Mayfried and Swantje Grundler contributed another subtle local reference: the exhibition typography was inspired by the Vaporetto CI from the 1970s. In the exhibition and the adjoining catalogue, 11 strategies of affirmative transformation were researched and presented according to the RRR system, displaying examples ranging from immaterial revaluations due to shifting perceptions up to total material makeovers. The three avoidance strategies: perception, maintenance and behaviour were followed by the 'classical' transformation strategies of renovation, conversion, infill, redesign, subtraction and addition as well as material and Gestalt-recycling. The 16 positions and strategies presented in the exhibition show the immense creative and architectural potential of working with the existing building stock. Reduce / Reuse / Recycle exhibits projects and attitudes of architects positively absorbing, strengthening and amplifying existing architecture - understanding the seemingly profane and nondescript as a source of inspiration and an impulse for development. The following architects and offices were presented in the exhibition: AFF Architekten, Berlin / AMUNT Architekten Martenson und Nagel Theissen / Atelier Kempe Thill architects and planners, Rotterdam / Brandlhuber + ERA, Emde, Schneider, Berlin / Diener & Diener Architekten, Basel, Berlin / Urs Füssler, Berlin/Jörg Leeser, Köln / Heinle, Wischer und Partner, Stuttgart / Hild und K Architekten, München / knerer und lang Architekten, Dresden / LIN Finn Geipel + Guilia Andi Architects Urbanists, Berlin / Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten, Frankfurt / Robertneun™, Berlin / Schulz & Schulz Architekten, Leipzig / Staab Architekten, Berlin Imprint: Muck Petzet Architekten Architekt BDA Dipl.-Ing. Muck Petzet Landwehrstrasse 37 D - 80336 Munich E-mail: sekretariat(at)muck-petzet.com The architect Muck Petzet is member of the Bayerische Architektenkammer (Bavarian Architects Association), Waisenhausstraße 4, 80637 Munich, membership no. 172838. The authorisation to use the professional title "architect" arises from the inclusion in the architects′ list of the Bavarian Architects Association. The architect Dipl.-Ing Muck Petzet is subject to the legislation and professional regulation of the Bavarian Architects′ Law (BayArchG). The text of the BayArchG can be read on the homepage of the Bavarian Architects Association www.byak.de. All images, photographs, graphics, texts and other components used in this website are the property of the authors and photographers. Use of these photos is only possible after prior consent from the makers of the pictures authors. If you have any further questions about this please do not hesitate to contact us. Notice of liability: despite our careful checks we cannot accept any liability for links to third party content. Exclusively the respective supplier is responsible for the contents of the linked sites. |
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