MOVIMENTO CONTINUO
Storefront
for Art and Architecture, New York, 2012
The
continuous monument is a part of history, and being part of history is subject
to, critics, obsolescence, reuse and predation. IT IS not democratic but it is
an imperial architecture. IT DOES not increase the degree of freedom of the
city and its citizens. IT IS not economically sustainable. IT IS neutral from
the material point of view. IT IS no longer meaningful: from content signifier
becomes emptiness of meaning. IT IS available, for position and modularity, to
predation. If the network is the real meaningful infrastructure, the continuous
monument as unique architectural system, is obsolete.
In this
context, citizens start using the continuous monument as a quarry for
construction materials. As happened to the Coliseum in late antiquity, its
dismantling becomes natural and unavoidable and its re-use as raw material for
other constructions becomes a necessity. Losing the collective meaning of
Monument, architecture becomes pure landscape, and can be compared to a natural
element as a mountain rock.
DESIGN TEAMFrancesco Librizzi Studio
Matilde
Cassani
CLIENT
Eva Franch Gilabert