IDW 2021

22 #18 New constellations / a 200 meter long spatial installation by rotative studio (Alexandra Sonnemans and Caterina Viguera) “By re-interpreting what you come across, as a de- signer, to be able to give a new perspective on the existing and to make visible what could be, while already using, doing, acting, performing - and therefore including others.” The workshop takes an existing situation as its starting point: the ground floor space of one of the Langblokken in Luchtbal. The Langblokken are mainly striking because of their extensive length of approx. 200 meters and their ‘open’ ground floor space. This space – a long, narrow, covered corridor surround- ed by two almost infinite rows of robust columns that remind of the classical colonnade typology - is ambiguous. There is no hard boundary that divides private from public, inside from outside; the threshold is almost invisible. Although this space is permeable and strongly connected to the public space, its rigidity and openness doesn’t invite to stay and perform other activities. Once designed as a continuous public space ‘for all’, it never fulfilled its original intentions and remains without any clear function, except for the entrances to the apartments, storage of bikes and shelter from the weather. The aim of the workshop is to temporary alter the perception and the scale of this ground floor space of one of the Langblokken, by creating new constel- lations between the existing architectural elements. These new constellations will visually and spatially compress and/or extend the space and generate new rhythms within the ground floor and its surroundings, stretching even further than the boundaries of the existing building. Opening up new ephemeral and imaginary spaces and trajectories can give the space another value and meaning, and evoke new uses. Image 1 Collage by rotative studio Image 2 Drawing of Braem’s Linear city 1934 Image 3 Intercultural Bench IDW 2020 1 2 3