9x9 Global Housing Projects Worldwide Housing Models Concept 9X9 focuses on nine exemplary housing models, interfacing the project with nine presentations on an emotional level. Aspects of housing are translated and made visible, audible, and perceptible, stimulating the formulation of one’s own needs while stimulating debate. The exhibition is based upon a book by Prof. Josep Lluis Mateo and his team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Global Housing Projects – 25 buildings since 1980. Around five hundred established projects throughout the world were studied at a preliminary stage, and twenty-five of them were assembled in a subjective selection. They provide a cross section of approaches to housing models around the world, molded by various climatic and cultural properties and chronologically embedded in the last three decades. Nine projects from this palette of divergent residential buildings are featured. The interpretation of the fundamental human need for housing through various arts and sciences – such as music, painting, installation, media technology, film, design, literature, philosophy, and sociology – enables the observer to take a non-linear, interdisciplinary approach to the topic. From the culture of the table (design) to urban development (film): the presentations that have been arranged depict an image of possible causes and effects and structural contexts. Who’s afraid of denseness, of unconventional materials and ceilings that are too high? The exhibition does not provide any answers that have been customized to Vorarlberg. Rather, it presents an abundance of ideas for common living: spatial qualities of denser urban planning concepts, conceived both vertically and horizontally, refined circulation and lighting structures, the crossover of interior and exterior spaces, complex floor plans and structures. The market and legal frameworks currently create a tight corset – high land prices, elevated construction costs, and demanding energy standards. There appears to be scant maneuvering room for innovative models within the bundling of these narrow preconditions. The projects that are presented were not designed in order to negate these conditions, but rather to provide approaches to ideas, inspiration, and courage for new models in home construction. Housing Construction Projects Netherlands France Spain Japan India Vietnam USA Mexico Argentina
Amsterdam Mulhouse Madrid Fukuoka Mumbai Hanoi San Francisco Mexico City Altamira
Presentations
Josep Lluis Mateo 1995-2000 Lacaton Vasalle 2004 Arangurengallegos 2003 OMA Rem Koolhaas 1991 Charles Correa 1983 Kazuhiro Kojima 2003 Stanley Saitowitz & Natoma Architects 2003 Derek Dellekamp 2003 Rafael Iglesia 2001
Music: sound atmosphere referring to the location and time of the buildings – sound installation Painting: The Interior Space in Pictures – works by different artists, from Gottfried Bechtold to Rudolf Wacker – wall installation Installation: the most intimate meeting place in the domestic space – nest, 2002, Edith Hofer – object Media technology: light color and intensity as an emotional barometer – light object Film: the exterior space in film – scenes of home design and its environment – Hundstage [Dog Days], 2001, Ulrich Seidl – film projection Design: The Culture of the Table as a Social Image – each country provides a place setting for the common table – object Literature: love as the point of departure of our spatial alteration – Die Ehen zwischen den Zonen drei, vier und fünf [The Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five], 1982, Doris Lessing – text Philosphy: TBA Sociology: TBA
Layout An area of 248 sq. m. (2,669 sq. ft.) will be used. The project presentation forms a coherent, three-dimensional permeable strip that is 26 m. (85 ft.) in length running through the three room levels of the display space. Every project is presented by means of plans and photographs, while the central medium for conveying the spatial quality is a combined presentation of section views and models that are being specially prepared. The presentations are selectively applied in the display space and charge the project with additional atmosphere. A sound installation, objects, a reading zone, mobile sound pictures, light and wall installations, and projection create a dense fabric of emotional perceptions.
Exhibition Site vai SCHAURAUM Vorarlberger Architektur Institut Marktstrasse 33 A-6850 Dornbirn AUSTRIA Opening June 18, 2009 Exhibition Dates June 19 – August 22, 2009