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We compose habitats,
places made of living matter and pulsating ideas
for trade shows, events, exhibits and retail.
materieunite has created the installation for the Tabula Rasa Visual Art Festival using three different forms of cardboard - honeycomb, reboard, and tubular. An urban forest supports the works inside a beautiful space that used to belong to an early 20th-century Art Nouveau seaside establishment.
Designing a visual arts festival means providing functional spaces for sharing that allow emotional connections between art and the individual.
With this in mind, we have created the installation for the Tabula Rasa Visual Arts Festival in Civitanova Marche. This event was created with the intention of disseminating narratives of urban art, architecture, graphics, photography, illustration, and independent publishing, with a focus on environmental themes. Three-day event featuring exhibitions, market shows, talks, and workshops.
For the event, we created the set-up of the spaces dedicated to the festival at the Palazzina Sud of Lido Cluana.
Specifically, we curated the set-up for the “Graphic…BOOM” exhibit and built the geodesic dome in the front garden, designed to host talks and meetings.
The theme of the first call for the exhibit’s illustrations was “Shared Space.” The concept we started with for the installation was “Urban Forest,” proposed by artistic director Giulio Vesprini.
A temporary exhibition designed to welcome visitors into an imaginary forest, located in a covered urban space.
We wanted to showcase the illustrations through cardboard installations that evoked the shapes of trees.
Each artwork found its base on a cylindrical structure made of expandable Honeycomb, a 100% recyclable material consisting of a honeycomb core made of corrugated cardboard.
It is then covered with an alveolar cardboard section, printed with direct UV printing, allowing us to visually reproduce centuries-old tree trunks.
The structure grows through a cardboard tube, allowing space for the hung illustrations, also printed on rigid supports made of alveolar cardboard.
Once set up, the enclosed space of Palazzina Sud found a new, clean atmosphere. Thanks to the exhibition structures made entirely of natural materials, we created a sustainable, lightweight urban space where one can feel the pleasure of exploring freely.
Outside, in the front garden of the Palazzina, is the geodesic dome. We really liked the idea of creating a temporary outdoor structure, a sort of inviting, inclusive stage, and at the same time, a tool for physical separation from the audience.
The geodesic dome is a modular and hemispherical tensile structure that can become proportionally more resistant as it increases in size.
A network of intersecting beams forms triangular elements, arranged to allow the structure to support itself without the need for internal walls or supporting pillars.
It is a self-supporting structure, easy to install, that combines the rigidity of lattice structures with the efficiency of the spherical shape.
The visually impactful design creates a point of visual interest that invites connection and the creation of new relationships.
Cardboard is used for the beams, held together by reusable wooden and plastic joints. This is the low-impact modular construction system we created for this set-up, with a minimal request for materials compared to similar structures.
It is the result of a design that seeks perfection through harmonious geometries and ethical design.
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