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Collection:
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title:
15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016): Arsenale Exhibit (ORG)
Alternate Title:
Abattoir 2020
Image View:
Detail, corner of the reinforced concrete panel units
Creator:
Organization for Permanent Modernity (ORG) (American and Belgian architectural firm, founded 2003)
Location:
exhibition: Venice, Veneto, Italy
Location Note:
Giardini della Biennale; outside the Arsenale
GPS:
45.429167 12.356944
Date:
2016 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American; Belgian (modern)
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
portico
Classification:
Architecture and City Planning
Material:
reinforced concrete; photographs; plastic model
Technique:
casting (process); construction (assembling); prefabrication
Subjects:
architecture; business, commerce and trade; contemporary (1960 to present); models (representations); prefabrication; urban renewal; 3D printed model
Description:
The Organization for Permanent Modernity, ORG is a global architectural and urban design firm, with a research branch at MIT and professional offices in Boston and Brussels. Monument for an Open Society was an installation presented just outside the Arsenale. A physical translation of the project 'Abattoir 2020', it is built using a consistent architectural language called 'platonic panels'. 'Abattoir 2020' is the master plan for converting the Brussels meatpacking district of Kuregem into a mixed-use urban environment. The panels are made from a diverse set of simple post and lintel elements, which are cast flat in reinforced concrete, and lifted into place to form porticoes. These oversized porticos can be combined in a number of different ways. By using them to create identical large-scale rooms, each of which interconnects with every other adjacent space, the architecture can accommodate almost any use. They have already completed a part of the project, a market hall, 'Foodmet', which was completed in June 2015. (Source: Flanders Architecture Institute; https://www.vai.be/e n/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Twelve
Identifier:
1A2-I-VE-VB16-80-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016): Arsenale Exhibit (ORG)