"VERGANGENHEIT IM VORGARTEN. Die Panzersperre als Relikt". Exhibition Design at Museum Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau.
The now obsolete remnants of Cold War-era defence strategies aimed at protecting national neutrality have gained new symbolic and cognitive value, reinterpreted by artists as monuments trouvés.
Drawing on the architectural axes of the Forum Schlossplatz, the layout is guided by metaphorical “lines of fire,” shaping a clear and immersive visitor journey.
The scenography serves the curatorial vision by turning the museum into a dynamic narrative environment.
INCLUSIVE DESIGN. ETH Exhibition at House of Switzerland - Milano Design week 2023.
The Exhibition Inclusive Design at Milano Design Week is designed as an architectural prosthetics made by hacking existing top Swiss products to showcase leading research and development on inclusive design strategies.
OPERA APERTA, Countless Cities, Biennial of the City of the World", Farm Cultural Park, Favara, Sicily.
"Opera Aperta", designed together with Beatrice Fontana and Frank Dittmann, is an installation that reflects on the Baugespanne, a distinctive tool of the Swiss building process used to visualise any architectural volume preceding its construction.
Decontextualised and stripped of its primary function, the Baugespanne installation of Opera Aperta shows its strong sculptural essence by hacking the exhibition space and seizing the exhibition venues of Palazzo Miccichè.
TEMPIETTO R. Cork Oak Nursery for the Ramarro Association Caltagirone, Sicily, (under construction).
Tempietto R. is a nursery designed to be constructed with the exclusive use of roof battens in collaboration with architecture students to replace an existing greenhouse previously burned by arson. The structure follows the simple logic and proportion of a "temple" to celebrate the holy spirits of the "genius loci" impersonated by the volunteers of the Ramarro Association who are protecting the natural forest from criminal arsons.
The project was realized within the initiative "Bosco Colto", promoted by Marco Navarra as an architectural and landscape laboratory to explore innovative ways and practices to inhabit the territory surrounding the city of Caltagirone.
VERDICHTUNG ODER VERDRÄNGUNG? Wenn Neubauten ersetzen*. Exhibition Scenography, ZAZ Museum Bellerive, Zurich.
The exhibition "Densification or Displacement? When New Buildings Replace" at ZAZ Museum Bellerive puts social and structural aspects of urban densification through replacing new buildings up for discussion.
The exhibition scenography is conceived as an artistic installation using an "as found" strategy to reduce waste and provide a conceptual and poetic approach: the global case studies are showcased inside window frames from a demolished building in Zurich, and all the furniture, produced explicitly for the exhibition were auctioned afterwards.
THE INNOCENT CHAIR (and Other Stories). Installation at Konzepthaus Laboratorium, Thun, Switzerland.
Two men meet in an abandoned countryside in the shade of an olive tree, or perhaps in the shadow of a rusty sheet metal roof. The first man is a farmer. The second is a lawyer. The farmer needs help, and the lawyer works as a volunteer for an organization that reactivates land confiscated from the mafias and is there to advise the farmer on how to start a path to legality.
This scene is fictional, from Antonio Scarponi’s imaginative design process. But it is a clear image, resurfaced as he was working on a project for a mobile pavilion that could host this kind of activity in southern Italy, imagining this kind of encounter and this kind of relationship between two men or perhaps two brave women rebelling against their fate.
Scarponi wondered about the symbolic form of a chair, dropped into this context that he designed and where those two men or those two women, were supposed to meet. In this place, the Innocent Chair was born as a symbolic way not to accept the world but to transform the small part of it into our hands.
THE INNOCENT CHAIR AND OTHER STORIES. Milano Design Week 2022, Installation at Isola Design District.
An abandoned seller was activated for the installation as a place of fantasies and memories. The installation, infact, consists of a mere composition of ropes, bare wood, and shadows.
DIGITAL WALDEN.
Resilient Strategies In The Digital Forest: A Pavilion Built With "As Found" Materials From The Zurich University Campus, By BA Design Students.
Based on the literary archetype of Walden by Henry Thoreau, students reflects on the meaning of freedom and the impact of digitalization on the future of work: the "digital forest" of our times.
The workshop focuses on designing and constructing a "hut" made of waste material found in the Zurich University Campus as a symbolic second "nature" of the digital era.
JERICHO ROSE.
Concept for Festspiele Zurich.
The Jericho Rose is an event concept strategy for the involvement of the public during the Festspiele Zurich. The project consists of mobile and modular grandstands which could host workshops and temporary stores underneath. The modules can be assembled and create an arena to host the public for concerts or theatre shows or used independently as urban types of furniture.
UDATEGIA.
Temporary Greenhouse Pavilion, Institute for Basque Architecture, San Sabastian, Spain.
Udategia, in basque, means the place where summer is produced and kept.
This temporary pavilion was built in two and half days of pandemia in December 2020, with the help of a small group of talented, dedicated young architects on the Institute of Basque Architects terrace for the Food Hack Lab. The Pavilion will “produce” the “summer” and its products via automated hydroponics.
'AS FOUND': OPEN MOBILE KITCHEN.
Neighbourship Making via Informal Together Cooking.
The project aimed to activate BA design students to design and build mobile kitchen modules made exclusively with parts assembled "as found". Our work is conceived as a device to interweave a "new" neighbourhood using food as an intercultural language.
JUNGFRAU PAVILION. Temporary Pavilion, Steffisburg, Switzerland.
The pavilion is conceived as an architectonic contribution to the iconographic tradition of the Jungfrau series initiated by Paul Klee, Arnold Böcklin, and Ferdinand Hodler and carried until today by many other artists.
LA CITTÁ LIBERA.
Off-Grid Participatory Design City Making.
La Città Libera is a performative installation that aims to explore participatory "off-grid neighbourship" architectural forms.
La Città Libera consists of a toolbox that stimulates the general public's imagination to develop participative self-sufficient urbanization. The toolbox contains 1:50 architectural elements to assemble a hypothetical housing concept to host eight people at "Swiss living standards".
HESJE.
Temporary Pavilion. Participatory process with Kaspar's Center Asylum Seekers and Norwegian Theater Academy Scenography Students, Norway.
Hesje, in Norvegian, is a particular type of primitive structure still used today by fisherman to dry fish near the beach. Inspired by the simple and yet elegant archetypical frame of the Hasje, a pavilion was conceived, designed and constructed in the asylum seeker centre of Kaspar, Norway.
LANDWORKS CALABRIA/ COSENZA (SELVA OSCURA). Landscape installation for the Activation of the Historical Center of Cosenza, Italy.
Cosenza Selva Oscura is a project held within the Landworks Calabrina workshop Series, conceived for the reactivation of the historical centre of Cosenza. The project features the participative involvement of international architecture and landscape students of the inhabitants to upgrade a degraded square and the construction of a small temporary pavillion.
CAMPO LIBERO (The Innocent House). Off-Grid Pavilion for the Reactivation of Lands Confiscated from the Mafia.
Campo Libero (The Innocent House) is a mobile device for reactivating the lands confiscated from the mafia in the south of Italy. It is designed as an off-grid rural mobile pavilion for the Italian organization Libera, which mission is to promote legality by training volunteers, providing legal support and helping refugees working with no rights in the tomato fields.
T(h)UN.
A Shadow Line Pavilion.
T(h)un is the design of a shadow line conveyed on top of a thin wooden structure. It's light landscape furniture designed to host an open-air moment of social life, and it has been installed at EXPO 2012 in Milano.
BRICK OF MARSEILLES. Participatory, Landscaping Infrastructure, Marseilles, France.
Brick of Marseilles is designed to assemble dry walls that can function as ecological corridors and plug-in infrastructures such as arcades, benches, promenades, and picnic tables. The project is conceived as a participatory factory to disseminate artisanal skills and produce the brick needed to extend the factory itself.
HOTELLO.
Somnia et Labora. Portable Office / Hotel Room for Das Konzept.
Designed in collaboration with visual artist Roberto DeLuca for the swiss firm das Konzert, 'Hotello', the four sqm unit is conceived to temporarily inhabit the contemporary city's empty lofts.
MALTHUS.
A Meal a Day. Aquaponic Home Device.
Malthus is an in-home aquaponics unit designed for the next generation kitchen or living room. It grows one meal a day: a portion of fish and a side salad. Aquaponics farming is a technique that combines the cultivation of fish with the growing of vegetables. The fish provides rich fertilizer for the plants, and in return, the plants clean the water from the tank. The fish and the plants co-exist in a symbiotic relationship.
READYKEA.
Revolution to Smash Global Capitalism - Exhibition Design at Cabaret Voltaire Zurich.
Only Capitalism can smash Capitalism. With this assumption, the exhibition "Revolution to Smash Global Capitalism" at Cabaret Voltaire Zurich was designed to hack IKEA's customer satisfaction policy resulting in zero costs and zero waste for the exhibition.
Indeed, the exhibition scenography is entirely made thanks to the use of IKEA's Trofast boxes, temporarily assembled with zip ties. In this way, the zip ties are afterwards cut off. The boxes were taken back to the store for reimbursement, profiting from the customer satisfaction policy, according to which the exhibition was scheduled.
ITALIA IN FUMO.
In Defence of the Italian Constitution, Participatory Installation, Milano, Italy.
Italia in Fumo (in Italian "Italy up in Smoke") is a project for the promotion of the Italian Constitution made in collaboration with the graphic designer Peppe Clemente. Its fundamental articles and the rights and duties of the citizens are framed within the graphic device of the EU non-smoking policy. The project involved designing a DIY graphic device to transform all possible citizens as the media to promote one of the most beautiful Constitutions ever written.
DREAMING WALL.
Public Installation, Milano, Italy.
A Vertical Public Space. The Wall is an Info Forum: the messages are generated in real-time by a chemical reaction between a computer-controlled UV laser projection and glowing panels. Its constant transience metaphorically suggests the subconsciousness of a city asleep.