Green Gallery
padiglione temporaneo di climatizzazione esterna
Engaging Urban Conditions
Urban conditions such as pollution, global warming and sealing ground are challenging not only the inhabitants but also the biodiversity in cities. The urban environment in the surrounding of MAXXI is densely built and in large parts sealed. In order to reduce pollution, improve the microclimate and foster the local biodiversity we propose the Green Gallery.
- Location
- MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art
- Year
- 2018
- Program
- YAP - temporary installation
- Client
- MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art
- Partner
- STUDIOD3R
Concept and Spatial Design
The installation represents an architectural landscape capable of questioning the anthropocene moment in time and the relationship between the man-made and the natural environment. The architectural accuracy and its almost graphical appearance of the minimal, rigid, white structure creates a dense dialectic with the wild, diverse, amorphous grown plants and allows an ambiguous reading of the Green Gallery. The installation is placed underneath the salient ‘head’ of the MAXXI, with its window facing the city and refers to it as a gesture quotation. As a counterpart to MAXXI’s massive volumes made out of concrete and dynamic spatial formality emphasising the gravity tectonics, the Green Gallery displays lightness and stresses the boarders of materiality with its minimal structure. The three-dimensional matrix unfolds in front of the MAXXI as a lively pergola. At the same time the human movement through the installation, guided by the extensive plant leaves mimics the dynamic, fluent geometry of the MAXXI.
Activating Senses - Sharpening Perception
The Green Gallery is an aesthetical experiece for all senses. The choreography of olfactory sensations as well as the symphony of colors permeates the body of the visitor and activates the subtle sensorium creating an emotional experience.
