The project
Accessing a place almost secret, disconcerting, and before reaching the dream, we must overcome a first phase: the
Threshold. This one tries to transmit the sensation of entering little by little in a dematerialized space in which the visitor does not know where it is, as if it fell in a light sleep. It is an intermediate moment, very dynamic, where the content refers to the previous work of RCR Arquitectes and constitutes a presentation and a synthesis of his career.
Then comes the
Dream: it represents the deepest stage of the dream. A cave of lights and movement, with a fragmented and quasi-mysterious spatial conception, where material is presented exclusively from the La Vila project. The Vila as an end and as a means, as an unfinished construction and life project. And that same interpretation of the intimate world of RCR, its strength and its sensuality, is taken to the extreme so that the visitor moves at will through space and has the possibility to build his own experience. As in dreams.
All that deep philosophical conception is defined as
Geography of the Dreams, and it is represented through magnifying glasses that distort reality, that reflect the world and at the same time fragment it, that approach it and move it away, in a game that confuses, It surprises, envelops and, in the end, makes the visitor reflect. That is the intention of RCR, to transfer to Venice the experience of La Vila, a Utopia under construction, so that its imprint lasts in everyone.
About the parallel program
The parallel program,
NEW FORMATS: DREAM AND NATURE, aims to show other views on the RCR universe from people and practices that act as a filter and allow us to approach different points of view and involve the largest number of people.
The parallel program consists of two projects, a cycle of conferences and a program of universities in which 8 schools from all over Catalonia participate, which have sent proposals that answer the question posed by the curators: What do we learn from Nature? Five proposals have been chosen from each participating school that can be seen on a screen of the exhibition. The schools participating in the program are BAU, Elisava, La Salle (Universitat Ramon Llull), ETSA Barcelona (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), ETSA Vallès (UPC), University of Girona, School of Architecture (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya) and the Universitat Rovira Virgili.
On May 24 and 25 in Venice, three debates have been scheduled: May 24,
Creating knowledge. New ways of communicating ART and ARCHITECTURE, with
Eva Franch (
ex-directora de Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and new
director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London) and
Pedro Gadanho (director of the MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon), moderated by
Pati Núñez, on May 25, Architecture Criticism, with Glenn Murcutt (Fundator
Architecture Foundation Australia, winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2002),
Juhani Pallasmaa (Finnish architect, honorary member of SAFA, AIA and RIBA) and
William J.R. Curtis (renowned architectural historian), presented by
Estel Ortega, and the closing conference RCR Dream and nature by
William J.R. Curtis and
RCR Arquitectes.
The parallel activities will take place in the building next to the Cantieri Navali, are open to the public and can be followed live by streaming from the Architect's Association of Catalonia (COAC) in Barcelona.