{"id":33622,"date":"2016-10-20T18:31:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/stuctures-of-landscape\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:52:40","slug":"structures-of-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/structures-of-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Structures of landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Located at the edge of Yellowstone Park in Montana, Tippet Rise Art Center<\/a> – with an extension over eleven thousand acres of wilderness – is born as a new destination for the arts, in which music performances and large – scale outdoor sculptures play a major role.\u00a0How the current local fauna and ranching activity can coexist with the added artistic and architectural interventions is a challenge that the project needs to embrace. This challenge has fueled the research that\u00a0\u00a0Ensamble Studio<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0started advancing the knowledge and appreciation of what preexisting natural conditions can bring to us, as architects and as users of architecture.<\/p>\n

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Structure of Landscape – Inverted portal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The architects went\u00a0back to primary elements to configure site-specific architectures in harmony with nature. Working with earth, with rocks, and learning from their formation logic, different techniques and processes are developed to manipulate the structural, acoustical and thermal properties of these local materials at different scales; and geological transformation processes \u2013 sedimentation, erosion, weathering, crystallization, compaction, metamorphism \u2013 reinterpreted to cultivate structures made of landscape, from landscape.<\/p>\n

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Structure of Landscape – Domo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Structures that stir existing matter and reinforce it, using highly engineered processes while welcoming unpredictable results. The forms obtained have been twinned with those taken from the land that previously contained and supported them when in state of rest, from which they retain memory and imprint and to which they introduce new meaning and tension. They are structures of landscape because they are born from it and give it order, transforming matter into inhabitable space and unfolding a new\u00a0constellation of programs among the plateaus, ridges, canyons and hills of brutal beauty that compose the site.<\/p>\n

\"Structure<\/a>
Structure of Landscape – Tabula<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Structures of Landscape enable habitation without exploitation, and intimate relationships with the environment. They resonate with the immensity, the roughness, the silence and the magic loneliness of the place amplifying its values, and situate the\u00a0architects actions in an ambiguous position between nature, architecture and art; they can be one and all, or a completely different category that only makes sense where it was born.<\/p>\n