MEDAGLIA D’ORO

DETAILS

Name: Medaglia d’oro all’architettura italiana
Location: Milan, Italy
Year: 2009
Typology: Exhibition
Surface:
SL: 600 sqm
Client: La Triennale di Milano

Designed for the Medaglia d’Oro for Architecture awarded to Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas in 2009, the exhibition at La Triennale di Milano presents itself as an overlapping composition of thoughts and images. A nominee for the XXII Compasso d’Oro, the project features a single three-dimensional element, replicated at various scales throughout the space, forming an “immense” reticular and aerial structure. The installation serves as a visual support for the flow of thoughts, almost like a mental archive of completed projects. It aims to be a complex spatial system, composed of simple multiplied elements.

The porosity of the structure expands, filling the void and materializing a spatial matrix. Before entering the main exhibition space, visitors pass through a decompression room dedicated to a collection of images of the Italian landscape—a prologue that announces the transformations architecture imposes on the territory.

The space is marked by a thin network of lines, a digital matrix that takes substance, where necessary, condensing around the images. The supports for images and models are the structure of the void that becomes visible, making it possible to return the images to their evocative state and their immateriality.