Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: 15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016): Arsenale Exhibit (Kundoo)
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016): Arsenale Exhibit (Kundoo)
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Alternate Title:
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Building Knowledge: An Inventory of Strategies
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Image View:
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Full Fill Home, built from modular Lego-like hollow ferrocement blocks, full scale installation
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Creator:
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Anupama Kundoo (Indian (South Asian) architect, born 1967)
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Location:
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exhibition: Venice, Veneto, Italy
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Location Note:
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Giardini della Biennale; Arsenale
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GPS:
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+45.429167+12.356944
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Date:
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2016 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Indian (South Asian)
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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model (representation)
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Work Type 2:
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house
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Work Type 3:
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outhouse
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Classification:
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Architecture and City Planning
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Material:
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ferrocement; models made with wood, poster board
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); prefabrication
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Subjects:
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architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); Housing; models (representations); Sustainable buildings; toilets; outhouses; outhouse
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Description:
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The 2016 display installed in the Arsenale building which included a full-scale house (the Full Fill Home) by Kundoo which showcased the potential uses of ferrocement (ferro-cement, also called thin-shell concrete). The prototype showed the house could be built in 6 days using Lego like blocks made of modular (and hollow) ferrocement blocks, which are stacked up to form walls and built-in furniture. Also on display in full-scale was the EASY WC, a toilet and shelter made from 6 prefabricated ferrocement elements that can be assembled in one day. The rest of the models (key projects from Kundoo’s 25 years in practice) highlight similar solutions for small homes that are affordable for even the most deprived regions, using locally available materials (and significantly less materials) and which are low-tech to build. Part of the exhibit was also a materials display, based on Kundoo's materials research. (Source: Anupama Kundoo [architect's website]; https://www.anupamakundoo.com/)
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Image Description:
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Being hollow the blocks can be configured for storage niches inside and outside the home. The ferrocement can be tinted an array of colors.
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Twelve
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Identifier:
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1A2-I-VE-VB16-56-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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