Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: 15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016): Arsenale Exhibit (ORG)
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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 (ORG)
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Alternate Title:
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Abattoir 2020
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Image View:
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Detail, corner of the reinforced concrete panel units
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Creator:
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Organization for Permanent Modernity (ORG) (American and Belgian architectural firm, founded 2003)
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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; outside the 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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American; Belgian (modern)
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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portico
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Classification:
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Architecture and City Planning
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Material:
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reinforced concrete; photographs; plastic model
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Technique:
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casting (process); construction (assembling); prefabrication
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Subjects:
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architecture; business, commerce and trade; contemporary (1960 to present); models (representations); prefabrication; urban renewal; 3D printed model
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Description:
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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/en/)
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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-VB16-80-A04
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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