Venice Biennale 2010 Balancing Act
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Location:
arsenale building
Venice Biennale 2010
Venice
Italy
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Building names(s): Venice Biennale 2010 Balancing Act
Architect/Designer:
García-Abril
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Ensamble Studio
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Completion date: 28 August - 21 November 2010
Function: exhibition
as part of this year’s venice architecture biennale, spanish practice ensamble studio has created ‘balancing act’, an installation to be showcased at the arsenal building.consisting of two giant beams, a spring and a rock, the project is a play of balance. negotiating between the old structural columns of the building, the two lines created by the installation draw a diagonal incision through the space. the result is a new order, a new rhythm to the ‘tempo’ already established by the existing columns. this foreign composition creates tension and friction, offering a new and disturbing reading of the space. the predominantly horizontal structure affects the verticality of the room, breaking its scale and introducing a new element to the arsenal building.
‘we have understood the whole arsenale as a theme of multiple counterpoint, where afterthe appearance of the original space, different voices occur around that theme, developedand carried in intervals, creating a complex compositional sequence, an architectural ”fugue”, in which different spaces follow one another, and in which the dissonant balance of the ‘balancing act’ is just one chord.’ -ensamble studio by playing with the forces present in the space, and the gravitational force that the structures generate, ‘balancing act’ makes the concept of balance tangible.
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