La Biennale di Venezia 2014

Min2 bouw-kunst was invited to participate in the Architecture Biennale in Venice 2014. The exhibition took place in Palazzo Mora. This international leading cultural event was held from June 7th until November 23th, 2014.
As an architect and artist, in co-design, we try to find practical solutions to give space to the changing world with a design method; we call the temporary ultimate, order of all. We start with studying, thinking, talking, sketching and after the concept thoughts are clear we make an object, called the interface, as a manifest through the stadia of elaboration. After this we start searching to the specific form in the place where the project is located.

For the Biennale 2014, the approach was to cover a big wall with sketches and our thoughts, in the same manner we work in our office, in the concept phase of our projects.
At one corner the architect starts with his graphical drawings in black and on the other site the artist starts with her chalk sketches and thoughts in white. In the middle they come together and mix, the co-design made visible in the design process. The issues of adaption to changes and to the place will be on the wall together with sketches of projects and concepts according to these issues.
We made a series of objects, chosing projects made in the concept of The New Loft, with the visible loft construction. And works with a strong, natural expression, we call them object buildings. the Interfaces are situated in typical landscapes in The Netherlands, with buildings under sea level, on the water (side), buildings in the wind, close to the sea, in the sand dunes, in the city, in the woods, etc.
The Interfaces where made with the basic materials we use in these buildings, like clay, wood, thatch, concrete, sand, water, etc. performed as art-objects giving form to the principle.

Team:
concept and design:     Jetty and Maarten Min.
art director:                   Jetty Min
banner drawing:           Jetty Min
models:                           Raffi Minaskan, Ernesto Villanueva Ruiz, Ilaria Rigodanzo, Natalia Beatríz

video:                              Chris Houtman
photographs:                Roland Drieënhuizen

Photographs: Min2 bouw-kunst