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IABR: Making City
Thursday April 19th, the fifth International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) will open in the Netherlands Architecture Institute.
As a part of the exhibition Making City, One Architecture has worked on the topic of Infrastructural Nodes. This has resulted in an integral exhibition object telling two stories of the growth of networks and nodes in the Netherlands.
The object’s exterior displays a map of past and future developments in the infrastructural networks and the way their use has shifted. This map has been composed with Malkit Shoshan, in consultation with Ton Venhoeven, Government Advisor on Infrastructure. In its execution, One Architecture has been supported by Goudappel Coffeng, TU Delft and the Stadsregio Arnhem Nijmegen.
Openings in the object allow for an admiration of the more intimate interior. Three design offices have investigated the effects of this shifting use of the network on ground level. What is the day-to-day experience, at eye level, of these places which are so crosslinked to the network?
BARCODE Architects has investigated the nodes at Amsterdam Sloterdijk and Eindhoven Acht, while Maxwan looked at the stations at Schiedam and Laan van NOI. One Architecture has researched De Diemens and Ressen.
The large scale of the network and the scale of the daily experience. These two scale are two sides of one coin, called Node. The exhibition object shows how these different scales meet. It gives a context and impetus to continue thinking on both the network as the places it contains
The Netherlands Architecture Institute is located at Museumpark 25, 3015 CB Rotterdam.
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