Planetary Mixing
Project presented in the SUPERBLAST competition
For Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence, 2021
The sum of the residues represents the territory par excellence of planetary mixing. Gilles Clément
In a space of industrial archeology, a bamboo dome covered with living vegetation is inserted. Inside there is walkable soil (taken from the construction site or from neighboring abandoned areas). A mound of dirt in the center tends towards a floating thimble, illuminated from several points with beams of laser light.
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Entering the dome, the observer will discover that, in an imaginative future, the flora continues its perennial colonizing motion. Having taken possession of the building, she identifies an enchanted residue of humanity among the soil of the construction site. Changed in its becoming, it builds a temple around the remnant. Watch out, watch the sprouting of what has been. The roles are reversed and perhaps, in the fluctuation of the thimble, a possible way is glimpsed.
The technical device for magnetic levitation
Irrigation system
