WHATAMI
02/12/2012WHATAMI is based on the manufacturing of an artificial archipelago-hill, generating smaller green areas in the garden and potentially outside the museum. WHATAMI is the corruption of « What am I », the industrial declination of the first puzzle invented in the XVIII century for fun-learning by John Spilsbury, it could be dismounted along the geographic boundaries; a tribute to the maps of Alighiero Boetti, which is dedicated to the square of the MAXXI. The hill works as a garden, injecting “green” into the concrete plateau of the museum’s outdoor space, allowing it to serve as a stage and/or parterre for concerts and other events, or as a space to rest and look at the museum itself. The artificial landscape will be punctuated by large “flowers” providing light, shadow and sound. The materials proposed for the installation involve a two-fold recycling processes; natural elements will come back to their original sites, the high-tech objects will be replaced in one of the abandoned places of the city waiting for a rehabilitation.
stARTT ( studio di architettura e trasformazioni territoriali ) est né en février 2008 d’une idée de Simone Capra et Claudio Castaldo. stARTT concentre sa production sur la transformation environnement causées par l’homme à différentes échelles d’intervention et à différents degrés de complexité: paysage, territoire, ville, urbanisme, travaux publics et de l’architecture privée constituent le domaine d’activité, à chaque fois croisé avec des outils techniques et de méta-recherche interdisciplinaire théorique.
