THE OSTHANG PROJECT – International Summer School and Festival for Future Modes of Living Together.
The focus was on COLLECTIVE BUILDING as an experiment.
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Building becomes an active process that reacts directly to the location at hand. The unforeseen represents potential: it allows designs to improve during the process of their implementation.
What does community mean today? What spaces does the community need? What forms and spaces of communal living can be imagined for the future?
Together with ORIZZONTALE (Rome) we built three sleeping cabins to host artists-in-residence or visitors. They were thought as multifunctional devices, which allow unexpected use and promote sociability among artists and spontaneous visitors, offering citizens a chance to become an artist-in-residence for a short period.
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The cladding of each cabin was built after testing several different materials recycled from the city of Darmstadt. The structures built has become a platform for further Osthang Project events and is available as a public space and a venue for projects and initiatives in Darmstadt and the surrounding region.
SUMMER SCHOOL FOR EXPERIMENTAL BUILDING
Architektursommer Rhein-Main
60 students and people interested were invited to participate at an experimental building workshop in Darmstadt. During three weeks it was developed a temporary campus for the Osthang Project along with international artists and architects. More at http://raumlabor.net/osthang-project/
Three weeks in three minutes >>>
Serena Cerillo 