House of Photography

Italy
Competition
2003

Description

In 2003, a globally leading manufacturer of image formation and editing equipment in the province of Alto Adige, Northern Italy, invited architects to participate in a competition for a House of Photography. The project was to include technical demonstration rooms, exhibition rooms to document the history of photography, and a future laboratory for imagery research. It was to be situated on one of those sites in the valley where the large lines of supra-regional infrastructure - motorway, railway and federal road - are pushed to the edge of the valley, cutting into the foot of the rising slopes.

The format developed, a zone of approximately 25m by 25m by 25m, is constructed as a sort of associative conglomerate of the supra-regional elements that pass by the site more or less incidentally: tunnel, federal road, railway lines, long ridges, guide rails. It is a construct which, similar to photography, operates on the basis of constructed memories.

Collaborators

Astrid Tschapeller
Mitarbeiter | Collaborator
Sandra Häuplik
Mitarbeiter | Collaborator
Consultants
dextro
Rendering | Rendering
Project Info
Drawings 11/1
House of Photography Zeichnungen drawing_1
Cube - erosion  
Würfel / Erosion  
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Models 43/4
House of Photography Modelle 00a_view_a2
Technical demonstration rooms, exhibition spaces, laboratories for imagery research, large projection surface of the laboratories for imagery research  
Vorführräume, Ausstellungsräume, Laboratorien für Bildforschung, große Projektionsfläche der Laboratorien für Bildforschung.  
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House of Photography Modelle view_a_site_view
Landscape perforated by supra-regional infrastrucure, cubic volume perforated by functional requirements  
Von überregionalen Verkehrslinien perforierte Landschaft / kubisches Volumen von funktionellen Anforderungen perforiert.  
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House of Photography Modelle view_b0
Elevation of the laboratories for imagery research. The laboratories are nested into the large projection surface.  
Ansicht der Forschungslaboratorien für Bildkunst. Die Laboratorien sind in die große Projektionsfläche eingenistet.  
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House of Photography Modelle view_c0
Technical demonstration rooms below, exhibition spaces above  
Technische Demonstrationsräume unten, Ausstellungsräume oben.  
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Site 11/1
House of Photography Bauplatz site
1 House of Photography, 2 existing factory, 3 federal road, 4 train, 5 north-south highway  
1 Haus der Bildkunst, 2 Bestehendes Werk, 3 Bundesstrasse, 4 Eisenbahn, 5 Autobahn Nord-Süd.  
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