Alessandro Zorzetto and Giacomo Mencarini

We wanted to build a large object that could challenge the rules of gravity and be evocative for the City of Venice. We decided to use natural materials: bamboo coming from a wood in Tuscany and wood recovered from an installation of the last Biennale. We activated a workshop to involve more people in the project, and the call was answered by citizens, students and professionals who wanted to learn how to use bamboo as a construction material. Together we created and set up a work whose forms recall the elements of air and water, resembling a cloud, a fish or a flying vessel, but even of the earth, from which come the materials used to build it, and the light from which it is permeated during the day and night hours.

Suspended in the air, high in the space between the houses, two large luminescent creatures float from the abyss. These luminous sculptures are the result of the work of a group of students and architects who participated to the self-construction workshop held by Precarious Architecture and Natural Born Builders in Maranola (Italy). Photograpy by Lorenzo Lanni.