Officina Roma villa20. Apr2012
"The OFFICINA ROMA is a villa entirely build out of trash. It consist of a sleeping room, a kitchen and a work shop. The plan lacks a living room, a comfort zone, instead there is an empty work shop in the center. OFFICINA ROMA is an experimental building practice, build within an one week long workshop with 24 high school students from all over Italy. The building is composed as a collage: A kitchen entirely build out of old bottles, the sleeping room with walls from used car doors, the workshop using wooden windows and old furniture and the main roof set from old oil barrels and used dry wall profiles." - Raumlabor
Officina Roma is comissioned by MAXXI, National Museum of Arts of the XXI Century in context of the exhibition RE-cycle. Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet which happens between 1 December 2011 and 29 April 2012.
Within the five month of the RE-cycle exhibition the OFFICINA ROMA will host a series of workshops and discussions on topics such as experimental building practices, alternative living concepts and recycling design.
Workshop area.---
View from the kitchen.---
The bedroom.---
Ground floor layout.---
Birds-eye view of the construction.---
Officina Roma villa in situ near MAXXI."The OFFICINA ROMA radiates an atmosphere of urgency; a turning point. It talks about the essential necessity to question our lifestyle, based on individuality, completion (competition), growth and exploitation of natural resourses. Although situated in the very dynamic and exclusive garden of the MAXXI, the design speaks of deadlocks, interdependencies and the need for more fundamental and tougher negotiations over privileges in our future society." - Raumlabor
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Selected window frames to be integrated in the construction.---
The busy workshop.---
Rising up the construction.---
Officina at night.---
View from the back.---
The workshop team---
They say:"yes we do love the great ideas of the 60s 70s and the optimism which is inherent in changing the world at the stroke of a pen to the better. but we strongly believe that complexity is real and good and our society today does need a more substantial approach. therefore our spacial proposals are small scale and deeply rooted in the local condition…. BYE BYE UTOPIA!"
[...]"raumlaborberlin is a network, a collective of 8 trained architects who have come together in a collaborative work-structure. We work at the intersection of architecture, city planning, art and urban intervention. We address in our work city and urban renewal as a process. We are attracted to difficult urban locations. Places torn between different systems, time periods or planning ideologies, that can not adapt. Places that are abandoned, left over or in transition that contain some relevance for the processes of urban transformations. These places are our experimentation sites. They offer untapped potential which we try to activate. This opens new perspectives for alternative usage patterns, collective ideals, urban diversity and difference."[...] - read more about raumlaborberlin on their site.
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