The installation exhibited at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale consists of a large model 20 m long at 1: 500 scale that crosses the entire width of the Corderia nave in the Arsenale in Venice. This is accompanied by two large panels with construction sections at 1:25, where the plant and animal species that are re-introduced into the scope of the project are also illustrated.
Description of project by PRÁCTICA arquitectura
The Somes River project is a contemporary example of the river's regeneration and renaturation efforts that aims to connect the diverse communities living in the city of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, as well as reunite them with local flora and fauna species. That was far from their natural habitat on the banks of the river.
Given the scale of the project, a new framework for dialogue and interaction through architecture is proposed and combines the efforts of a large multidisciplinary team that includes architects, landscapers, engineers, urban planners, government agencies, and everyday users to find a possible answer. to the question of how we will live together.
The project, therefore, reimagines the river as a new active social space of interrelation that operates through scales and programs. It defines how the inhabitants of the city interact with each other and with the ecosystem that surrounds them. On a community scale, it becomes a space for meeting and exchanging ideas between the different communities that live in the city.
Somes's project, though limited in time and space, has multiple ramifications that affect entire communities beyond social orders and physical boundaries, and acts as a new piece of shared infrastructure that addresses local and local conditions alike global.
