INNER FOREST by Ivan Juárez

Ivan Juarez is back in Europe for this project in Norway. he is able to sweat the landscape and the materials you use in your projects, designs Ivan Juarez never leave the viewer unmoved. A strong perception of colors, textures, images and value of a lush green landscape, from the geometry of a cylinder open to its environment, and closed in on itself to launch a vertical look. An excellent project, which again we have to congratulate the author. Thanks.

Photo © Ivan Juárez.

The landscape of the fjords on the west coast of Norway stands out as scenery that projects a constant dialog between mountains, ocean, rivers, waterfalls and lakes. A landscape with an uneven geography, acquiesced by valleys and archipelagos. An exuberant nature, where acres of pine forest shade the ground covered with moss, vanishing among the mist.

Photo © Ivan Juárez.

Inner forest consists on an approach to the natural environment of the Norwegian landscape in which the connection with the context constitutes the essence of the work. The piece emerges from the ground creating a new space, setting up a new a perception of the forest. Entering in to the piece, the perception of the landscape changes, visually blocking the forest, leading the glance above, where a fragment of the landscape frames the sky with its own vegetation.

Photo © Ivan Juárez.

Since its conception, the project process was closely joint to the surroundings that lodged it. Walking through the woods and collecting the material to create a handmade natural skin which varies in textures and in tones. A material that acquires a symbolic connotation. Seeds from where the forest is born and which return to dialogue in a new way with nature, defining the transformation cycle of the piece.

Photo at NORDIC ARTISTS' CENTRE DALSÅSEN© Ivan Juárez.

Credits:
A project made by: Iván Juárez : : x-studio with the collaboration of Sandra García
www.x-studio.tv
Promotor: Nordic Artists' Centre Dalsåsen, Norway. Norwegian Ministry Of Culture
Arild H. Eriksen (Director) + Jasmina Bosnjak, (Coordinator)

Photo at NORDIC ARTISTS' CENTRE DALSÅSEN© Ivan Juárez.

MORE INFORMATION IN METALOCUS:

Tambabox. Tambacounda. Senegal. | Ex-Studio. Iván Juárez y Patricia Meneses
published in: M-019 | A08 | p. 84

Point of View - Balla di Fieno. Tuscany. | Ex-Studio. Iván Juárez y Patricia Meneses
published in: M-019 | A07 | p. 82

Arquitecturas Nido. Navacerrada. Madrid. | Ex-Studio. Iván Juárez y Patricia Meneses
published in: M-019 | A09 | p. 86

Forest Refuge | Ex-Studio. Iván Juárez y Patricia Meneses
published in: M-019 | A06 | p. 80

Dream House | Ex-Studio. Iván Juárez y Patricia Meneses
published in: M-019 | A05 | p. 78

FLOW | Iván Juárez + Patricia Meneses
published in: M-021 | A09 | p. 118

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IVAN JUÁREZ

Ivan Juarez, architect, landscape architect and artist. He is a member of the National System of Art Creators through the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA). He is founder of x-studio in Mexico, after acting as co-director at ex-studio in Barcelona. His projects explore the relationship between art and function; integrating the disciplines of architecture, design, sculpture and installation. He has developed a wide variety of projects in different countries in which he investigates and experiments with new ways of relating space with society.

He has developed numerous projects (architecture, urban projects, site specific interventions, landscape interventions, set designs, exhibitions, outfit) in different countries such as Italy (Tuscanny and Sicily), Senegal, Austria, Switzerland, France, Greece, Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Huesca, Bilbao), Portugal and Mexico, which he has conceived them in reason and function of its physical context and could not be generated in other place than in the one of their conception and realization.

His projects in which he investigates and experiment with new ways of relating space with society—explore the relationship between art and function, integrating the disciplines of architecture, design, sculpture, and installation. In this context, he has developed numerous projects at different scales, from large to small buildings, from objects to city and landscape interventions.

He has built projects in different countries such as Italy (Tuscany, Sicily and Sardinia), Senegal, Austria (Vienna), Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Huesca, Bilbao and Zaragoza), Portugal, Switzerland (Lausanne), Taiwan (Taipei) and Mexico, conceiving each project in reason and function of its physical context and they could not be generated in any other place than the one of their conception and realization.

He has been selected as one of top 10 emerging design firms in the Architectural Records Design Vanguard Award. His work has garnered different awards including: Design Vanguard Emerging Designers. selected by Architectural Record magazine; Young Architects Award given by The Architectural League of New York, AR award for Emerging Architects given by The Architectural Review in London , the New Generation Award, contractworld, Hannover, Germany, The Young Architects Prize, given by the College of Architects in Barcelona and the National Grant for Mexican Young Architects.

He has been guest lecturer and guest professor at different international institutes such as at the Architectural League of New York, at the Royal Institute of British Architects, at the Architekturzentrum Vienna, at the College of Architects of Catalonia in Barcelona and at the International University of Catalonia.