Aequilibrium
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Aequilibrium
Matteo Benigna Download Original
An installation at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale
C+S Architects’ participation, entitled eduCARE, was exhibited in the Corderie of the Arsenale and revolved around school buildings, a series of unconventionally re-designed nodes of the city of the sprawl.
The installation, Aequilibrium, combined a red passerelle floating in the air on a cork carpet printed with the projects of the schools. Those projects have become one big story of the potentials of these small buildings within cities and the challenges of shaping a society in transition.
The practice designed a suspended structure, which wrapped around the historic columns of the Corderie dell’Arsenale.
The volume was built through a multiplicity of small steel pieces, welded together to generate a self-supporting suspended element without any need for vertical supports.
The steel pieces adapt; some of them are visible, others aren’t, but all are fundamental to balance the tensions.
Data
- Begun: Apr 2016
- Completed: May 2016
- Floor area: 84m2
- Sector: Arts and culture
- Procurement: Invitation from the curator
- Address: Corderie dell'Arsenale, Venice, Italy, 30124, Italy
Professional Team 
- Architect: C+S Architects
- Client: 15TH ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2016
Suppliers
- Construction: Strutture Metalliche srl
- Construction: Montaggi Industriali srl
- Construction: Archetti Rx srl
- Construction: Studio Fontana
- Enginering: Alessandro Bonaventura
- Enginering: Luigi Ranzato
- Enginering: Sandro Favero
- Cork floors: Granorte
- wood structures: Luciano Longato & C s.n.c
