His new work is an expensive pavilion as a part of a royal event in Abu Dhabi, which was attended by 1,900 guests from the whole Middle East. The 7,000 square meters scenographic space compose partitions of architectural elements built from wire, and are the first time confronts the artist with the design of a vast indoor space. The event space, was developed together with Designlab Experience’s Mootassem Elbaba and Marwan Maalouf.
Description of project by Edoardo Tresoldi
An absolute garden, synthesis of nature and architecture
Archetype is a garden where architecture and nature dance together in continuous connections and contrasts, whose peculiarities, in the Renaissance meaning, are filtered, absorbed and interpreted by the contemporary man.
The set-up is a symphonic space where classical archetypes interact with the signs of the modernist language. Through transparencies and their broken rhythms, elements of absolute geometry such as spheres, cubes, and planes cut and break up classical harmonies. The overall effect results in a continuous evolution of architectural abstractions and evanescent distortions.
An absolute landscape that develops itself through an inverse process: nature grows and evolves on the imaginary space, trying to give shape and matter to human visions.
The transparent architecture determines the interpretation of natural orders, with small visual poems in which these two worlds prove to be parallel and intersected at the same time.
Nature is a synthesis of landscape, man becomes landscape through architecture.
If, to quote Hölderlin, gardens are what allow us to “dwell poetically upon this earth”, Archetype is then a multi-tiered experience, a sacralized and identified human space.
The fusion of classical and modernist language generates a third one, marked by clear visual and volumetric decompositions, which find its time in the contemporaneity.
According to a specific author’s choice, the visual storytelling has been done by architecture photographer Roberto Conte.
