SOCIAL NETWORK beachfront installation wins MAPPELAB x MAXXI competition
By Bustler Editors|
Thursday, Nov 20, 2014
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SOCIAL NETWORK by Italian architecture team Matilde Mellini and Andrea Tabocchini takes a tangible approach to the common phrase. The beachfront installation won this past summer's DM-KM278 2014, an international competition hosted by MAPPELAB magazine and the MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome.
Check out photos of the installation right below.
Project description:
"The aim of the design was to realize a one-night installation of 5000m2 of space on the beach of Senigallia, Italy, right in front of a historic shrine. The attempt of the installation event was to let people reflect on the beach both as a limit of the contemporary urban environment and an area of contact between local identity and international creativity."
"The proposal is a social and interactive architecture composed with rows of fishing nets, which reminisces the way fishermen dried their nets in the past. This composition organized the program, creating a huge set that absorbs the viewers’ shadows, allowing them to modify the environment and their perception of the beach."
"The result is a poetic installation, an interplay of transparency and permeability, a dynamic space moving with the wind and changing with the light, a clear reference to the nature and the history of the site, an installation to reflect on the simplest actions of the human being: thinking, moving, listening, observing, and meeting."
Materials: People, gravity, air, light, shadows, fishing nets and wood sticks."
All photos courtesy of Matilde Mellini and Andrea Tabocchini.
Click through the gallery below for more project images.
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