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Roofless Garden
The Roofless Garden
This is a bilateral project. Namely it consists of two parts: a design and a narrative part, or a visual and a verbal part. One of the aims of this project is the development of an experimental relationship between the two parts.
The first part involves the design of a structure-device for experiencing the site: ‘200-metres-southwards-the-Green-Line’. This is about the archaeological site that has been accidentally discovered at the block No165 near the Old Municipal Market in the Old City of Nicosia. The aim of the device will be an experimental engagement of the user with the historical object and- in a more profound level- with the history, the mnemonic landscape of Cyprus.
So, on the one hand, the project is a site-specific intervention. While, on the other, the project is also ‘story-specific’, as it narrates the story of Panikos (the similarity with the English word Panic is intentionally accidental), a time-mechanic who is the commissioned tuner of the mnemonic-device. The story describes his personal, tense route and his adventures in a city of functional devices (mechanical or institutional). The story concludes with a final apocalypse and awareness that the city is not worth-imagining as a rigid-functional machine, but as a bunch of wrecked devices with an eccentric and aimless character. And with bearing this in mind, just like in the Heath Robinson’s or Rowland Emett’s wittily ‘meaningless’ devices, our hero can finally relax as well.
www.relaxincyprus.org
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PROJECT: Roofless Garden, prize in architectural competition and installation in the 11th Venice Biennale
CLIENT: Cyprus Architects Association
PLACE/TIME: Nicosia and Venice, 2008
DESIGN TEAM: Christiana Ioannou, Christos Papastergiou
CONSULTANT: sir Peter Cook, architect
This is a bilateral project. Namely it consists of two parts: a design and a narrative part, or a visual and a verbal part. One of the aims of this project is the development of an experimental relationship between the two parts.
The first part involves the design of a structure-device for experiencing the site: ‘200-metres-southwards-the-Green-Line’. This is about the archaeological site that has been accidentally discovered at the block No165 near the Old Municipal Market in the Old City of Nicosia. The aim of the device will be an experimental engagement of the user with the historical object and- in a more profound level- with the history, the mnemonic landscape of Cyprus.
So, on the one hand, the project is a site-specific intervention. While, on the other, the project is also ‘story-specific’, as it narrates the story of Panikos (the similarity with the English word Panic is intentionally accidental), a time-mechanic who is the commissioned tuner of the mnemonic-device. The story describes his personal, tense route and his adventures in a city of functional devices (mechanical or institutional). The story concludes with a final apocalypse and awareness that the city is not worth-imagining as a rigid-functional machine, but as a bunch of wrecked devices with an eccentric and aimless character. And with bearing this in mind, just like in the Heath Robinson’s or Rowland Emett’s wittily ‘meaningless’ devices, our hero can finally relax as well.
www.relaxincyprus.org
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PROJECT: Roofless Garden, prize in architectural competition and installation in the 11th Venice Biennale
CLIENT: Cyprus Architects Association
PLACE/TIME: Nicosia and Venice, 2008
DESIGN TEAM: Christiana Ioannou, Christos Papastergiou
CONSULTANT: sir Peter Cook, architect
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