Apart from the selection of projects on view in an exhibit created by Alfonso Femia, the three projects presented by Ico Migliore underline how architecture can provide a response to increasingly timely issues of usability, sustainability and circularity.
For the Blue Design section of the Biennale, the lecture Time and Metamorphosis investigates the concept of metamorphosis in architecture: openness to crossing, awareness of actions and sustainability form the basis of behaviors we can all put into practice to take stock of the experience of living in a place.
Introduced by Silvia Chiara Lucchesini of LP and moderated by Patrizia Catalano of Interni, Ico Migliore’s lecture narrated three projects of the studio – an exhibit, an installation and a work on an urban scale – all connected by the common denominator of recovery of time on the part of human beings, and a greater sense of respect for the value of natural resources.
With the statement “it should rain inside my projects,” Ico Migliore does not set out to indicate a structural condition of architecture, but to underline two fundamental aspects of every architectural experience: on the one hand, the permeability of the architectural artifact, and on the other the fact that the foremost specificity of space is that of being lived in, experienced. In this dimension of experience, the project has to go beyond the excess of control. It is architecture that has to host and be hospitable at the same time: an architecture “that has to be slowly released over time, like medicine,” providing a series of experiences over a long time span.
As a constant, the concepts expressed in the book by Migliore always return: “The narrative component intrinsic to making architecture comes to terms with the measure of time, that variable of foundation in the design. The increase of speed corresponds to an increase of space of architecture,” Migliore asserts. For a fast, aware architecture, let the debate continue!
(Carlo Biasia)
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