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18 Sep 2017
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Chapel for Scenes of Public Life at Chicago Architecture Biennial
(STUDY FOR) CHAPEL FOR SCENES OF PUBLIC LIFE THE MEETING OF ENRICO MATTEI AND THE QUEEN OF SHEBA
The Chapel for Scenes of Public Life is a pavilion designed by baukuh and Stefano Graziani for the II Chicago Architecture Biennial ?Make New History?, curated by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee. The project is presented through a large wooden model in scale 1:2. The model measures 3×12 m, and is 4,5 m high and is located in the Exhibition Hall of the Chicago Public Building.
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The Chapel for Scenes of Public Life tries imagining how to produce spaces, so that gestures happening inside of them could acquire public meaning. The chapel is made of images of spaces distributed on the internal surfaces of a room. The images describe the scenes (the places, the spaces, the volume occupied by human bodies) of an imaginary event that is explicitly ?staged? in order to produce a ?spatial figure?.
This ?spatial figure? is meant as visual evidence of a political project explicitly addressed to a public audience. The chapel delimits a plain rectangular room and produces an ample vertical surface decorated with images. The images are photograph...