OTHER SPACES



THIS PLACE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
Lasse Mouritzen
and Frida Robles



Love Canal
Elsa Bres


The Permanently Temporary
Cathy Smith and Natarsha Tezcan


A post-landscape handbook
Ed Wall


Tuning Space
Campbell Drake


Dear Testing Grounds / Fortuna Redux
Millie Cattlin and Joseph Norster


Evoke
Nic Quantock-Holmes
and Oli Brown


Mini Maddern
Public Realm Lab


Home as Hometown
DENARA - architecture studio


Glow: Monarch Lane
Christine Phillips and Tania Davidge


The Overlooked Chinese Terrain Vague: On Culture, Urbanisation, and Resilience
Jiatong Shi, Jillian Walliss


More trains, more often – soon, they promise
Yuchen Gao, Loren Adams, and Eugene Perepletchikov


DO YOU CARE?
Let’s reflect on the sea
Maria Pina Usai and Stefania Toro


Black Box Festival of Living and Dying Art
Kyle Bush


Belfry
Jinjoo Yang


Togethering
Lena Heubusch, Susana Moliner, and David Pérez


Drawing Fields
Outpost Office, Ashley Bigham, and Erik Herrmann


Kristall, The Domestication of Water
Daryan Knoblauch


The Field
Robert Snelling, Brittany Devlin, and Kate Donaldson


Windflower
Urban Radicals


The Waste Archive
Jesus Meseguer, Javier Arias, Mireia Ferri, and Connie Meseguer


Modul #3070
DELACAVE Architectes | Architectural Think Tank


New York has a High Line, Berlin has a Low Line
Studio ON/OFF


Dear Document Fukushima Paribartana Mohanty


Mapping Future Memory
Eleanor Peres and mone studio


Sydney Biennale:
Cockatoo Island
Philip crowther


Aqueous Landscapes
Ainslie Murray and Helen Lochhead


Other Spaces: Others' Spaces
Demet Dincer


Born to Die
Laura Syzman


Peripheral housing on the urban wasteland of Chinese cities
Weijie Hu


Terrain Vague; Neighboring Damascus
Sara Adam


Not yet another web
Ioanna Sotiriou


Weeds’ Analogy: From Industrial Debris to Data Urbanism
Kwan Q Li and Joel Austin Cunningham


Incompiuto (Unfinished) Alterazioni Video

Incompiunto
(Unfinished)


by Marc Augè, Robert Storr, Paul Virilio, Wu Ming, and others



LOCATION: ITALY


The research on unfinished architecture addresses the theme of unfinished public works in Italy, investigating in a multi-disciplinary way the relationships between these architectural works and the context into which they are inserted, asserting their artistic value and proposing them as a new stylistic definition.
We see the entire "national system of unfinished works" that we uncovered over about ten years of research as a material witness to the current socio-cultural context that permeates everyday life, and we propose a definition as a new style that will return its contents from multiple points of view.


1. Sport Palace Nuoro | Photo by Alterazioni Video



What we mean by this is to demonstrate how the Incompiuto is not just a label within which to forcibly enclose a heterogeneous set of works, but rather a real theoretical model, capable of recognizing, identifying, and even to a certain extent predicting the configuration of a work or a system of unfinished works in the process of becoming. Unfinished works appear to us as sites of collective memory yet to be investigated. Born as ruins and produced by a compressed time, they are architectural works that shape the landscape.
The definition of an architectural style indeed makes it possible to identify a theoretical model of reference capable of providing an interpretative paradigm of a phenomenon present throughout the national territory, and in particular in the Sicilian one, typical of the ‘70s-‘80s, but which is possible to trace from the ‘50s up to today; a tool for interpreting the recent history of our country.


2. Viaduct Barche Bomba | Photo by Alterazioni Video


Attributing an artistic and architectural significance to the unfinished means devising another way to read these sites, recognizing the unfinished works as resources for the territory.


3. Viaduct  Mussumeli | Photo by Alterazioni Video


Unfinished is now entering its second phase, concentrated on repurposing the uncompleted buildings. Left structurally unchanged as monuments to the present, the idea is to transform them into multifunction sites for outdoor cultural and athletic activities, like parks, gardens, auditoriums, and theaters.
Alterazioni Video wants to turn these failures into a positive, transforming those abandoned sites into monuments that can be traversed, experienced by people. These places are representative of our contemporary society that tries to hide its failures by leaving them in oblivion. This project does not intend to make a complaint but on the contrary wants to celebrate the existence of these works. In this regard in 2021 we have started  the process for the realization of the first unfinished monument and park in Nuoro, Sardinia.




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