Michele Arnaboldi; Enzo Rombolà; Carlo Barra; Anja Ureta
Michele Arnaboldi is committed to the integration of the scale of the territory with the scale of individual projects. Having worked with Luigi Snozzi, he carries on this philosophy that architecture, landscape, culture and community are intertwined. He has promoted the idea of ‘Città Ticino’ as a way of confronting the urbanisation of the Ticinese landscape. In this exhibit he makes a direct connection between the thinking behind the making of buildings and the making of strategic territorial interventions. Large scale plans and photos of models describe the immensity of the scale of the student work stretching their capacity to analyse, to find new interpretations and readings, to imagine new possibilities. He then switches scale and views the big landscape from the inside out.
Through the windows, from under the canopies, the cantilevers of his own built work, he frames, captures and focusses outward from within. This contrast of focus and scale is reflected spatially in the design of the installation. The detached rational tools of architectural drawings and models are used as a reference point from which one zooms right into a domestic space creating a real enjoyment of the dynamic reciprocal relationships.
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