Weaving Architecture: The Interweaving of Poetry of Benedetta Tagliabue

Weaving Architecture, installazione per Biennale Architettura 2018 - Benedetta Tagliabue- EMBT - credit Giovanni Nardi

28/05/2018 – A space for participation as a manifestation of freedom: this is the basic idea of the installation of the weaving of the architecture. The project of Miralles Tagliabue EMBT shows manual techniques, such as weaving, have the ability to humanize the public spaces.
The structure presented in Venice, is made up of different elements, woven together on two levels. The upper level is built with modules from a Americsn red oak and the background is built with modules in stainless steel. The two are braided with glass fibre and various colors. This softens the visual effect and a blurring of the boundaries caused by the structure.

The weaving of architecture adopts a mode of thinking which is at the root of the experimental work that Benedetta Tagliabue – EMBT is directed by years, starting with the flag of Spain on pasture presented, l'Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

This search will now continue in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, on the outskirts of Paris, with the project for the future u-bahn-station (part of the Grand Paris Express), a market and redevelopment of the urban space, the built-in fiber, a material, fragile, but resistant to time and weather.

The weave of architecture was presented at The architecture Biennale of Venice in 2018. The concept, of armor at different levels: a loom to weave with the u-bahn, linking the activities of people in public space, the structure of the cover and the cover with glass fiber. The cover offers additional protection and shade, the creation of a room for the various activities. His nature expresses stained the spirit of Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, the memory, and the African motifs of the clothing of the inhabitants, is the graffiti night – an art that belongs to the inhabitants. This architecture, as well as the infrastructure which connects the earth and builds a sense of social integration, to be a testimony for the societal role of architecture.

Source: press release of the AHEC American Hardwood Export Council

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