Luxembourg Pavilion
The Architecture of a Common Ground
Architecture Biennale, Venice
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Architecture Biennale, Venice
Luxembourg Pavilion
Architecture as a form of political project
A unique exhibition space, the Arsenale, for a meta-specific contribution by the young Université du Luxembourg. A social investigation into the privatisation of public land, represented in a physical way through a verticalisation of the architectural proposal. New buildings stand out on suspended skylines to demonstrate a dialectic of freedom. Also metaphorical freedom from crushing and suffocating market logics, where the re-appropriation of common land is the necessary dimension for human sustainability. Those proposed are 13 works, or rather models, representing a possible ethical future of architecture.
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Luxembourg of public space
The lighting design caresses the pavilion in three different areas: corridor, barchessa and installations. The first, a ‘fil blanc’ representing Luxembourg's public ground, is delimited by a LED strip walkway profiled by RIBBON PLUS HIFLUX in DALI and emphasised by overlapping cones of light that accompany the visitor in defining, in negative, the ‘private’ space. The latter, hosting the works, manifests itself as a space-non-space. Each building idea lives on its own, thanks to a punctual light provided by multiple IRIS-Ts, always managed in DALI, with optics and luminance customised to the architectural construct. A necessary expedient, as the particularity of this installation lies in the identification of the space itself as the protagonist of the dialogue. Demarcating and emphasising the volumes, and consequently the concept of which they are the bearers, was only possible by customising the product. Third and last space, the pavilion itself. A functional and diversified management for the barchessa, to give it harmonious light calibrated to an indirect intensity effect, distributed 10% on the sides and 50% in the central part.
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