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2022 ROTUNDA

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ROTUNDA

Vilvoorde (Belgium), 2022

 

The intervention updates the greenhouse structure Unglued built by Rotor in 2021, over a concrete basin of the original military facility. It is based on the insertion of two classic architectural devices: a polygonal cavea expanding into a larger deck, and a system of oculi opened into the roof. The deck rises the dancing crowd from the ground: it provides an elastic response to its movement, reverberating the beat. The oculi provide new geometries of light and shadow, breaking the optical perception into discontinuous fragments. The project pragmatically responds to a need for more space for dancing while triggering unpredictable long-term uses.

 

The 470 sqm deck is built on irregular ground with a supporting structure made of recovered wooden beams, paved with Doka formwork panels. The yellow floor is suspended about 60 cm above the ground and it is accessed by two stairs made of concrete blocks on the south-west corner. The arena occupies the opposite portion of the deck and descends 1 meter into the concrete pit to reach the level of the exi-sting circular platform. Its plan is based on a 24 sides polygonal geometry articulated on 3 steps. The deck is activated by DJ and live concerts stages along its perimeter during the festival: the position of these temporary “rafts” determines the specific orientation of the performance from time to time.

 

A black roof floats above the forest of thin steel pillars intersecting the deck. It is perforated by the varied geometries of the oculi, whose position and size are indifferent to the regularity of the greenhouse frames. The seemingly solid roof is in fact made of shrink foil tensioned on the metallic beams.The holes cut in the roof project new geometries of light and shadows on the yellow floor below, constantly changing the perception of the performance space over the course of the day and night.

 

stage for Horst Arts and Music Festival, 2022 edition
feasibility study, final design, construction management
client: Horst
surface: 470 sqm

photos: Jeroen Verrecht, Illia Steirlinck, Dieter Van Caneghem, Elias Derboven, Maxim Verbueken

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Salottobuono

Corso Sempione, 33
20145 Milano, I
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www.salottobuono.com

Salottobuono is an architectural office based in Milan, directed by Matteo Ghidoni.

 

The studio’s work ranges from urban design to architecture, from temporary installations to exhibition design. Salottobuono is also constantly engaged in research, publishing and teaching activities. Always active in the international arena, the studio is currently in charge of developing public space and landscape redevelopment projects on behalf of several Italian administrations. Salottobuono relies on the collaboration of a network of specialists for the development of all phases of the project in its structural, plant engineering, economic and site management aspects. It also collaborates with consultants on landscape and environmental sustainability issues.

 

Matteo Ghidoni obtained his Master Degree in architecture at IUAV Faculty of Architecture in Venice in 2002. He was a founding partner of the research agency Multiplicity from 2002 to 2006. His work with Multiplicity was exhibited at Kunstwerke in Berlin (2003), the Venice Biennale (2003), the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (2003), the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2004) and the Beijing Biennial (2004).

 

Ghidoni founded the architectural office Salottobuono in 2007. Salottobuono has served as editor of the Instructions and Manuals section of Abitare magazine
(2007-10) and as creative director of Domus magazine (2011, 2012). The office has taken part in the Venice Biennale (2008, 2012, 2014), and designed the Italian Pavilion in 2010. Salottobuono published the Manual of Decolonization (2010) and Fundamental Acts (2016).

 

Matteo Ghidoni is currently Visiting Lecturer at the MIT Department of Architecture and Adjunct Professor at Politecnico in Milan. He taught design studios at the Faculty of Architecture in Genova, at IUAV Faculty of Architecture in Venice, the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotà. He has given guest lectures at several schools and institutions including the Berlage Institute, Berkeley, TU Wien, Vlaams Architectuurinstituut in Antwerp, Columbia University and USoA Miami. He has been studio leader at the Venice Studio organized by the Melbourne School of Architecture and at the Porto Academy hosted at FAUP.

 

In 2014 he was invited by Rem Koolhaas, director of the Venice Biennale, to participate in the Monditalia section with the research project Ground Floor Crisis. Among the recent projects designed and built by Ghidoni there are the winning proposal for a temporary restaurant for the 25th Biennale Interieur in Kortrjik, Belgium (2016), the pavilion for the Mèxtropoli Festival in Mexico City (2017), the e-flux pavilion for the Milano ArchWeek (2018), the new Urban Center for the city of Milan (2019) and the new addition to the Venice Casino in Ca’ Noghera (2020). His project for the market square of Sant’Agostino (Ferrara), designed in collaboration with Enrico Dusi and completed in 2020, has been awarded the prestigious Gubbio Prize as the best national intervention on an area of historical interest.

 

Since 2010, Ghidoni has been co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of San Rocco, an independent international publication about architecture. The editors of San Rocco were received the Icon Award in 2012 as the best emerging architecture practice. In 2012 and 2013, the magazine was awarded two grants from the Graham Foundation.