THE PROMISE OF RE-USE
LIFE | WORK IN URBINO - ITALY
PALAZZO BONAVENTURA
STUDIO KRUCKER & BATES
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY MUNICH
This semester we shall explore re-use and the adaptation of existing building fabric in the most exotic of locations, Urbino. A world heritage site and birth-place of Bramante and Raphael, Urbino epitomises the Renaissance notion of ambiente, nature and history, landscape and cityscape. Projects will be located in the medieval fabric within the old city walls and the outlying university pre-cincts, developed from the 1960s-70s with the intention of finding strategies for adaptive re-use of the buildings to provide living and working environ-ments. The special qualities of the ex-isting buildings will prompt fresh ideas about living in plan and section, thresh-old and territory. The project will bring us face to face with two important cre-ative protagonists who each contributed so much to the development of the city, the Renaissance painter, sculptor, archi-tect and military engineer Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Giancarlo de Carlo, core member of Team X from 1956, ur-ban planner of Urbino from 1958, and founder of ILAUD (International Labo-ratory of Architecture & Urban Design) in 1976.
The questions we will ask ourselves, as posed also by Carlo’s 1966 Urbino Plan, are first, can an old form retain its significance when the activities of the city itself have changed radically? And, second, how can a modern architectural form be successfully woven into an old-er fabric and how can it become a next layer in the continuously evolving city?
Reference of re-use
The ninth instalment of Cave Bureau’s “Anthropocene Museum” research series constitutes the adaptation and tour of Sharjah’s old slaughterhouse, whose primary protagonists are the animals – cows, goats, sheep, and camels – consumed in the city; often without thought of their origins or how they are processed. The audience is corralled through an ever-present, but seldom reflected upon, municipal event space, in a building that is now only intermittently used.
Visitors will experience a variety of ambient sounds, drawings, projections, and installations that tell of a world steeped in a deranged consumerist culture deeply embedded in an enslaved hu-man consciousness. On a global scale, maninduced livestock proliferation has constituted the greatest biomass of mammalian life on earth, with animals being a commodity sold to the high-est-paying suitor. In equal and potent measure, human beings have been commodified through capitalism, auctioned to the highest bidder. A reference to a recent, near-forgotten past also emerges; enslaved Africans were led from the Indian Ocean shores to the Gulf by Arab merchants — like livestock.
At the core of the exhibit lies the philosophical underpinning of meaningful impermanence. In life, only death is certain, everything else is in flux. Visitors are encouraged to view the ever-shifting built landscape of life as an opportunity for reversed notions of growth through introspection and spiritual reconnection. It asks one to accept the need to adapt through a new planetary consciousness that embraces meaningful impermanence without us building almost anything at all.
Visitors will experience a variety of ambient sounds, drawings, projections, and installations that tell of a world steeped in a deranged consumerist culture deeply embedded in an enslaved hu-man consciousness. On a global scale, maninduced livestock proliferation has constituted the greatest biomass of mammalian life on earth, with animals being a commodity sold to the high-est-paying suitor. In equal and potent measure, human beings have been commodified through capitalism, auctioned to the highest bidder. A reference to a recent, near-forgotten past also emerges; enslaved Africans were led from the Indian Ocean shores to the Gulf by Arab merchants — like livestock.
At the core of the exhibit lies the philosophical underpinning of meaningful impermanence. In life, only death is certain, everything else is in flux. Visitors are encouraged to view the ever-shifting built landscape of life as an opportunity for reversed notions of growth through introspection and spiritual reconnection. It asks one to accept the need to adapt through a new planetary consciousness that embraces meaningful impermanence without us building almost anything at all.
- Sharjah Architecture Triennial 02, Slaughterhouse
MODEL 1:50
FLOORPLAN 1:50
Bertolt Brecht
DER KÄLBERMARSCH
DER KÄLBERMARSCH
Hinter der Trommel her
Trotten die Kälber
Das Fell für die Trommel
Liefern sie selber.
Der Schlächter ruft: Die Augen fest geschlossen
Das Kalb marschiert. In ruhig festem Tritt.
Die Kälber, deren Blut im Schlachthaus schon geflossen Marschiern im Geist in seinen Reihen mit.
Sie heben die Hände hoch
Sie zeigen sie her.
Die Hände sind blutbefleckt
Doch immer noch leer.
Der Schlächter ruft: Die Augen fest geschlossen
Das Kalb marschiert. In ruhig festem Tritt.
Die Kälber, deren Blut im Schlachthaus schon geflossen. Marschiern im Geist in seinen Reihen mit.
Sie tragen ein Kreuz voran
Auf blutroten Flaggen
Das hat für den armen Mann
Einen großen Haken.
Der Schlächter ruft: Die Augen fest geschlossen
Das Kalb marschiert. In ruhig festem Tritt.
Die Kälber, deren Blut im Schlachthaus schon geflossen Marschiern im Geist in seinen Reihen mit.
Trotten die Kälber
Das Fell für die Trommel
Liefern sie selber.
Der Schlächter ruft: Die Augen fest geschlossen
Das Kalb marschiert. In ruhig festem Tritt.
Die Kälber, deren Blut im Schlachthaus schon geflossen Marschiern im Geist in seinen Reihen mit.
Sie heben die Hände hoch
Sie zeigen sie her.
Die Hände sind blutbefleckt
Doch immer noch leer.
Der Schlächter ruft: Die Augen fest geschlossen
Das Kalb marschiert. In ruhig festem Tritt.
Die Kälber, deren Blut im Schlachthaus schon geflossen. Marschiern im Geist in seinen Reihen mit.
Sie tragen ein Kreuz voran
Auf blutroten Flaggen
Das hat für den armen Mann
Einen großen Haken.
Der Schlächter ruft: Die Augen fest geschlossen
Das Kalb marschiert. In ruhig festem Tritt.
Die Kälber, deren Blut im Schlachthaus schon geflossen Marschiern im Geist in seinen Reihen mit.
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