exhibition
22 June 2016 > 23 October 2016
Angelo Renna studied Architecture in Florence and Porto. He has worked with various studios including Stefano Boeri Architetti in Milan, Bureau A in Geneva and Topotek1 in Berlin. In 2011, he won third prize in the d3 Housing Tomorrow 2011 competition, NY (USA) with the project “Learning from Slums; Ihas”. In 2013, he won the European Norway competition in Oslo with the project “1.2.3 stella”. He recently won the NIB prize (Top 10 Under 36 Italians) in the landscape category.
The Gayardon Bureau has been active since 2013, bringing together the professional experience acquired by its members – Sara Angelini, Dania Marzo, Alessio Valmori – in Italy and elsewhere (COBE, BIG, MASU PLANNING) in a new enterprise. The practice operates as a collective intelligence on the threshold between design and research: here the union of diverse skills aims at achieving the simplest result through a rigorous creative and rational process.
Composed of Simone Gobbo, Alberto Mottola and Davide De Marchi, the demogo studio was founded in 2007 and focuses on the relationship between contemporaneity and context, characterising itself by an authorial approach linked to the relations between the diverse scales of intervention, with a strong propensity for the urban dimension of architectural work. A central aspect for the practice is the construction of its own material lexicon, understood as a poetic component resonating with the landscape.
Deltastudio, composed of Dario Pompei, Valerio Galeone and Saverio Massaro was founded in 2009 at Ronciglione (VT) as an architectural practice working in the fields of urban and architectural design, temporary structures and graphic design. The studio’s research and experimentation is directed in particular towards architectural design for public spaces, exhibition design and temporary installations characterised by a continual search for a dynamic balance between a do-it-yourself approach and digital thinking.
This summer sees the return of YAP – Young Architects Program, that promotes and supports young architecture, now in its sixth Italian edition and organized by MAXXI in collaboration with MoMA/MoMA PS1 of New York, Constructo of Santiago de Chile, Istanbul Modern (Turkey) and MMCA, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (Korea).
A gigantic green dinosaur, a neon flying saucer, a rainbow and myriad coloured lights
The winner this year is the installation MAXXI Temporary School: The museum is a school. A school is a Battleground by the Milan studio Parasite 2.0: three sets that reproduce with elements in wood, rubber and metal, animal shapes and fragments of nature.
Fantastical settings, references from diverse cultures, fragments of nature and pop-up details providing backdrops for visitors’ selfies: interaction with the public is fundamental to this year’s project. All the structures have green as their dominant colour, which is read as a green screen by a special web application created for the project: yap2016.fondazionemaxxi.it
THE WINNING PROJECT
The Parasite 2.0 project was chosen for its capacity to transform the nature of the piazza with structures with a strong vocation for interaction with the life of the museum, its events and its public through the social media, for its playful composition and for its ties with a theatrical and cinematic tradition of construction that is deeply rooted in the history of Rome.
Composed of Eugenio Cosentino, Stefano Colombo and Luca Marullo, Parasite 2.0 was founded in 2010 and has created designs, sets, workshops and research projects for public and private institutions including the Venice Biennale, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Coruña, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Missoni, Anuala Timisoreana de Arhitectura, Cefa Onlus, Officine Ansaldo, Fondazione Isacchi Samaja and the Milan Triennale.
THE EXHIBITION
from 22 June to 28 August 2016
Claudia Gian Ferrari Room
As well as featuring the models from the shortlisted projects for the Italian edition, the exhibition also presents YAP – Young Architects Program 2016 in its entirety thanks to the curators of the partner institutions.
THE FINALISTS
Angelo Renna
de Gayardon Bureau
demogo
deltastudio