Authors: Mattia Pretolani, Grégoire Guex-Crosier
“When the night has come (…) You can have half of a hamburger,
some cheese sandwich then you can have a muffin, and some juice.”
Slavoj Žižek
The program
A room, a theater, a cinema, an exposition, a bath, a place to talk, to discuss, to hear music, to draw, to plan, to work, to chill, to sleep, to have sex, to cry; a Room of Response.
But the Re:Room will be built for RE:EASA, in the first three days using the most efficient and simple ways, a prefabricated module and a ready-made object are its matrix. All following contamination of structure and furniture are possible and suggested. After the basic construction its participants could possibly flow in others workshops or stay to contribute to the continuous metamorphosis of the Re:Room and the talks and activities we will propose and host in collaboration with all the possible RE:EASA actors. There are thousands of things we should do as architects these days. We start with a Room.
Mattia Pretolani
“The difficult thing is to find poetry, spirituality, in this dimension. To recreate, if not beauty,
then aesthetic dimension in things like these, in trash itself. That is the true love of the world”
Slavoj Žižek
The detail
For the screen, the choice was to believe in re:use to re:interpret industrial trestles and fabric to research spirituality and poetry in poor and cheap materials. Through a simple repeated constructional system, the room express the concept of “Re” by a evidence in the construction: Repetition, reiteration and radical craftsmanship.
The simple repetition of prefabricated modulos to increase the speed of production.
In the structure, the system is to re:use industrial trestles to build the basis of the modulos, which would be repeated to create an architectural ordinance. In a structure, the concept of ordinance is valid only if all elements are the same size, typically given by regulars modulos.
The screens have been built with the Tyvek recycled from Nida that we brought back to Switzerland in 2016. Tyvek is an industrial low-cost fabric normally uses in garden roof terraces to protect isolation from covering stones. The surface of the fabric is a rough and irregular wool whose beauty appears when light come in when its beauty gets revealed in the shadows when the night has come and the land is dark.
As a statement of the “Re”, the construction has been dreamed up to re:use the past, the present and the future with a modulable scenography for everyone: the poet, the sailor, the cursed, the tourists, the actors, in desire of a place to practice simple activities of life in Rijeka.
Grégoire Guex-Crosier
Workshop tutors: Mattia Pretolani, Grégoire Guex-Crosier, Adam El-Hamadeh
Participants: Alexander Wegener, Beatriz Ferreira, Bartek Grezesznik, Elis Hackaj, Fraser Birtwistle, Kataryna Ciznska, Olga Konstantinović, Gergana Ivanova, Roman Cadre, Teodor David, Zacharie Cabaud.
Guest: Alexandra Polyakova
Text: Mattia Pretolani & Grégoire Guex-Crosier (Mitramachina)
Illustrations: Grégoire Guex-Crosier (Goullagoullik)
Photos: Alexandra Polyakova, Romain Cadre, Adam El-Hamadeh, Grégoire Guex-Crosier, Igor Vukičević, Alexandra Kononchenko, Fraser Birtwistle (cover photo)
Drone support & video: Simon Sais and Alexandra Polyakova
Music: Noosa-Etäisyys
Test-Protest collaborators:
Tutors: Louis Laulanné, Valeria Khripatch, Venla Miila Kaarina Keskinen
Participants: Anna Bunina, Elina Liiva, Emil Dworschak, Gia Khuong Nguyen, Karolin Kaup, Luka Smišek, Mike Zerafa, Maria Azzopardi, Svenja Nomkea Lindner, Salome Schramm, Sophia Chtysanthou, Tuulia Kivistö, Vassiliki Apostolaki, Eveline.
Curator: EASA Croatia
Logistical support & Tapaland: EASA Switzerland
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EASA Tourist
Through the different metamorphosis of Re:Room, we wanted to show the amount of possibilities and opportunities offered by a standardized prefabricated modulos-system. In continuity of this demonstration of rationalized prefabrication, the craftzone of EASA TOURIST would be developed to offer to the community a perfect isotropic surface where to craft such elements of prefabrication beforehand, to carry them in the landscape along the trails of Villars-sur-Ollon.
Do you want to be a tutor of your own workshop? Learn how to apply here!
Deadline: 29.03.2019.
