ALTERTOPOS

Among many impressive works of young practitioners and students, our proposal for Georgian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale was exhibited at the Architectural Association, (AA) School of Architecture, in Marc Cousin's Lecture hall.

Our work has been shortlisted in the section of Origins and Destinations. The exhibition was launched in the frame of Climate Matters Week held at AA, 30 Oct- 3 Nov.

The concept of the proposal has been elaborated in dialogue and collaboration with Carmen Fiol (Arriola & Fiol arquitectes);  Luca Veltri (Laboratorio Quattro); Andrea Arriola Fiol (Arame Studio); Lorenzo Degli Esposti (Degli Esposti Architetti).

Altertopos: Salome Gugunava, Nodar Kvanchiani, Beka Bitsadze, Tatu Batiashvili

Project abstract:

The proposal for the Georgian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial 2023 represents a wall installation in "Il Giardino Bianco Art Space".

The proposal constitutes an insertion of a wall as the dynamic, plastic and expressive element penetrating existing exhibition space. The wall metaphorically represents Georgia's location between European and Asian cultures. The flow and circulation of visitors are directed by two triangular-shaped openings. Terrains, surrounding the new wall, introduce stages for the models from 20th-century unfinished modernist architectural objects from Georgia.

The pavilion is designed as a laboratory of the future, where Georgia, located in the middle of the Western and the Eastern cultures, presents its architecture, art, origin and philosophy in dialogue with surrounding geographical, political, and socio-cultural contexts. It becomes a platform, stage, bridge and corridor connecting these diverse thoughts.

Figure 2.

Title: Distant View of Mount Caucasus

Artist: After Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777 - 1842)
From: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c., London 1821
Collection: Royal Academy of Arts

Among many impressive works of young practitioners and students, our proposal for Georgian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale was exhibited at the Architectural Association, (AA) School of Architecture, in Marc Cousin's Lecture hall.

Our work has been shortlisted in the section of Origins and Destinations. The exhibition was launched in the frame of Climate Matters Week held at AA, 30 Oct- 3 Nov.

The concept of the proposal has been elaborated in dialogue and collaboration with Carmen Fiol (Arriola & Fiol arquitectes);  Luca Veltri (Laboratorio Quattro); Andrea Arriola Fiol (Arame Studio); Lorenzo Degli Esposti (Degli Esposti Architetti).

Altertopos: Salome Gugunava, Nodar Kvanchiani, Beka Bitsadze, Tatu Batiashvili

Project abstract:

The proposal for the Georgian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial 2023 represents a wall installation in "Il Giardino Bianco Art Space".

The proposal constitutes an insertion of a wall as the dynamic, plastic and expressive element penetrating existing exhibition space. The wall metaphorically represents Georgia's location between European and Asian cultures. The flow and circulation of visitors are directed by two triangular-shaped openings. Terrains, surrounding the new wall, introduce stages for the models from 20th-century unfinished modernist architectural objects from Georgia.

The pavilion is designed as a laboratory of the future, where Georgia, located in the middle of the Western and the Eastern cultures, presents its architecture, art, origin and philosophy in dialogue with surrounding geographical, political, and socio-cultural contexts. It becomes a platform, stage, bridge and corridor connecting these diverse thoughts.

The project concept has been elaborated in dialogue and collaboration with Carmen Fiol (Arriola & Fiol arquitectes);  Luca Veltri (Laboratorio Quattro); Andrea Arriola Fiol (Arame Studio); Lorenzo Degli Esposti (Degli Esposti Architetti).

Altertopos:
Salome Gugunava, Nodar Kvanchiani, Beka Bitsadze, Tatu Batiashvili