Buildings And Living Things: Sharing Ground
Presented by Robin Boyd Foundation & Baracco+Wright Architects
DETAILS
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Robin Boyd Foundation
290 Walsh Street, South Yarra VIC, Australia
Along the Po River, between the towns of Piacenza and Cremona, Italy, the Caorso ex-nuclear power plant and its surrounding territory of natural and urban environments offers fertile ground for design ideas.
Buildings And Living Things: Sharing Ground, is a 13-minute video work produced by Mauro Baracco (Baracco+Wright Architects) in collaboration with Margherita Marri (Captcha Architecture) and Valentina Noce (Sabotage Practice), with students of the Polimi-Milan Polytechnic; School of Architecture, Urban Planning, Construction, Engineering; Master of Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design, in the context of: Crossing Contested Lands, 5th international design workshop (September 2024) of the LOL- Landscape Of[f] Limits program. The video focuses on the transformation and redefinition of built and unbuilt areas. A series of interventions revolve around and extend from the reuse of the dismissed plant, speculating on new ways of inhabiting the planet, an alternative to current models driven by production/consumption cycles that go hand in hand with extractive/destructive practises, generating waste and depletion of natural resources.
Participants
Mauro Baracco, Baracco+Wright Architects
Mauro Baracco, architect, PhD, is a co-director of Baracco+Wright Architects (B+W, est. 2004) and their related research laboratory B+W+. He teaches and researches: formerly an Associate Professor at RMIT (1996-2020), he is currently University Fellow to RMIT, Teaching Associate at MADA and Visiting Professor at Polimi Milan. Mauro is also a member of the Boyd Circle Founding Group at the Robin Boyd Foundation. His interest in the local has developed from historical and cultural to include ecological relationships of the built and unbuilt environment. He is interested in a role for architecture that can extend its relationship with the natural world towards one that considers all life. Together with Louise Wright, the other director of Baracco+Wright Architects, they build, unbuild, rearrange and support buildings and living things. Recently they have been researching the role of reuse and removal of built form in the reimagining of the city.