A wave of larch boards supported by a metal structure of thin pillars breaks against the Palazzo del Cinema in the island of Lido in Venice, becoming the entrance of the 50th Film Festival in the summer 2003.
The structure impresses a new sign on the Venetian scene: a catwalk for the entry of actors and film directors as well as an organized space for photographers.
Supported on a series of steel struts, the wave is a catwalk that keeps the public near and far at the same time. Like the deck of a ship setting sail for a great adventure, the installation gets near to the existing facade. A compressed entrance space is created between two folded surfaces: the existing cantillivered roof and the new folded surface.
The moment of the actors’ arrival is an explosive and magic one, but it last a second as when the wave breaks itself on the beach, leaving a corrugated soil on the threshold between earth and water.
B. Finessi, I. Lupi, Allestire Oggi, in: AA.VV. Enciclopedia Treccani del XXI Secolo, pp. 8-9
257 KBD. Santos Quartino, Il Paesaggio. 100 architetti, 1000 idee, Modena, 2012, pp. 74-77
2.0 MBClient: Tese spa
Structures and coordination: Andrea Bondì, Tese spa
Location: Lido Island, Venice, Italy