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60 Minute Man
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60 Minute Man
Venice, Italy
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2000
An archaic oak garden in an abandoned barge growing on top of 60 minutes worth of human waste produced by the city of Venice. A public park by Casagrande & Rintala (Marco Casagrande, Sami Rintala) for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2000."We got the invitation to participate in the Venice Biennale 2000. The
director of the Biennale architect Massimilliano Fuksas wanted us to
realize an architectural installation commenting on the theme of the
exhibition: Citta Less Aesthetics, More Ethics.What we wanted was to have an industrial ship and plant a forest inside.
Then sail with this ship from Finland to Venice. Our biologist frieds
told us that the vegetation would die somewhere around the Biskaya Bay,
the climate change would bee too big:"Trees don´t sail."We ended up in North-Italy with a van with our mobile working crew and
started to look after a ship. Eventually we found a barge in the port of
Chioggia, some 50 km south of Venice. The barge "Topogigio" was
abandoned and filled with dirt and water. We could work with this.All the materials are recycled or borrowed. Even the trees. This is a temporary collage of material streams, urban acupuncture reacting on the energy flows of the city. Massimilliano Fuksas wanted us to have the Golden Lion of the Biennale. The jury voted against him and gave it Jean Nouvel. Big reward after 7 weeks of work was to sail with the forest and open it up as a public park in Venice. New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp chose the 60 Minute Man his personal favourite of the biennale.The construction process was realized as a 1:1 scale workshop for the landscape architecture department of the Aalto University.
director of the Biennale architect Massimilliano Fuksas wanted us to
realize an architectural installation commenting on the theme of the
exhibition: Citta Less Aesthetics, More Ethics.What we wanted was to have an industrial ship and plant a forest inside.
Then sail with this ship from Finland to Venice. Our biologist frieds
told us that the vegetation would die somewhere around the Biskaya Bay,
the climate change would bee too big:"Trees don´t sail."We ended up in North-Italy with a van with our mobile working crew and
started to look after a ship. Eventually we found a barge in the port of
Chioggia, some 50 km south of Venice. The barge "Topogigio" was
abandoned and filled with dirt and water. We could work with this.All the materials are recycled or borrowed. Even the trees. This is a temporary collage of material streams, urban acupuncture reacting on the energy flows of the city. Massimilliano Fuksas wanted us to have the Golden Lion of the Biennale. The jury voted against him and gave it Jean Nouvel. Big reward after 7 weeks of work was to sail with the forest and open it up as a public park in Venice. New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp chose the 60 Minute Man his personal favourite of the biennale.The construction process was realized as a 1:1 scale workshop for the landscape architecture department of the Aalto University.
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