"Urban Interface" by Arch. Michelangelo Vallicelli / Lorenzo Sant'Andrea / Nicolò Troianiello, Rome - Italy
From the Jury: "Introspective and theatrical at the same time, this "interactive storage" is like a big hug between human and technologies."
From the author: "If we had to think completely in utopian terms and not responding to any specific building requirements, the solution we would better strive would have been a completely open space not being an architectural enclosure with the external environment. We would have hoped that its contents could be completely stored within a server connected to the Internet, open to anyone, anywhere. Rather being only an artworks container it could be an ‘interface’. Our project instead aims to be a ‘meta-museum’, which allow individuals anywhere in the world to upload and submit their own installations, video documentation, discussions, and that through the museum’s envelope, be returned to the city and to the local reality of Lavapies. Being as a large public display, it can also resubmit information in its virtual site and the world wide web."
