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    In Between

    C-PLATFORM × Ivan Juárez

     

    hinoki + sugi pavilion
    Oawa mountain, Kamiyama, Japan

     

    A new approach to the natural landscape of Oawa mountain, a protected and sacred forest located in the town of Kamiyama, Japan. The region is covered by evergreen woodland where the predominant vegetation includes trees of hinoki 檜 -Japanese cypress- and sugi 杉-Japanese cedar-. In-between pavilion consists of a sugi wooden space generated from two elevated planes supported by a series of vertical elements -trunks of hinoki and sugi- that merge together with the natural environment.

     

    The wide frame suggests a fragment of the forest as a new viewpoint of reference. In this way, the pavilion pays homage to the traditional black-ink Japanese paintings made on landscape formats. The project is drawn as a space that does not end in specific limits, but merges with the surrounding greenery expanding the visual boundaries transforming into a large three-dimensional canvas. The visitor enters through a blue-green stone – awa aoishi 青石 – and from there, the aroma and sound of wood, along with the texture of barks dialogue with the senses producing olfactory, tactile and visual experiences.

     

     

    In-between pavilion has been built using traditional Japanese techniques with the knowledge and participation of the local community. Its construction has been part of Kamiyama’s forestry management program
    Credits:
    x-studio : Ivan Juarez
    Construction: local community of Kamiyama + Ivan Juarez
    Construction direction: Mori san
    Curator: Keiko Kudo
    Powered by: Green valley + KAIR

    Botanical Island

    Living-lab
    Greater Blue Mountains, Australia

     

    Located on the limits of Wollemi National Park, in the UNESCO`s World Heritage listed Greater Blue Mountains, the site-specific intervention proposes a -living lab- through a conductive thread across different cartographies. Along a circuit path the intervention delimits and scopes a fragment of a forest, as a botanical island with significant biodiversity that contains multiple layers of endemic landscapes offering the sensory experience of touching, smelling, observing, walking and listening. The site-specific intervention is a symbolic delimitation of a portion of a pristine forest and the enhancement of its biodiversity. Native plant species, endemic fauna and a low-impact pathway weave together botany and perceptual experience. The project proposes dialogues between sensory and scientific approach and community`s knowledge dissemination.

     

     

     

     

    Research-Lab & dissemination: With the intention of increasing the landscape awareness, the project applies interdisciplinary methods of site-approaching and didactic processes. The intervention was complemented with the Research-lab, a parallel exhibition space for knowledge, participation and dissemination where the experiential site work is displayed: sensory maps, drawings, cartographies, videos, sound recordings, sketches, photographs, models, as well as the interactive herbarium.

     

    Vegetation process: The project has been conceived as a series of ephemeral interventions -tracing, mapping, plant identification and community walk-, emphasizing the natural process of vegetation, and encouraging nature to continue with its own spontaneous growth, by erasing the trace left by human activity and performing over again its own dynamics

     

    Interactive Herbarium: With the aim to collect, identify and disseminate the different species that shape the -Botanical Island- , the herbarium is displayed as a framework in which the local community can participate and interact, sharing their own knowledge about the plants identified in the site -uses, applications, relationships, cultural meanings or personal stories-. Among the flora living in this forest fragment are several varieties of eucalyptus and angophoras, associated with a variety of cedars, acacias, turpentines, ferns, grasses, mosses, shrubs and wildflowers.

     

    Credits:
    x-studio : Ivan Juarez
    with the support of Bilpin international ground for Creative initiatives (BigCi)
    BigCi Environmental Award 2018
    Special thanks to Rae Bolotin and Yuri Bolotin
    flora identification: Prue Gargano

    Lightness

    Mediterranean light
    site-specific light installations at Jørn Utzon`s Can Lis House
    Mallorca, Spain

     

    When sun light -sunrise and sunset- meets the stone walls of Can Lis house, the architectural space is transformed into intangible drawings where light and shadow fill the space insinuating the existence of tridimensional geometrical shapes. The series of site-specific installations pay homage to the Mediterranean natural light and its sensitive presence in the house. A poetic dialogue between space, immateriality and movement where light traces the pass of time evoking visual and ephemeral experiences.

     

    Project made with the support of Utzon Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation Committee for Architecture.

     

     

     

    Intervention. Gothic Cloister

    Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona, Spain.

     

    “Now, the thread has been lost, the labyrinth has also been lost. Now, we no longer even know whether these corridors that encircle us are those of a labyrinth, a secret cosmos, or a chaos of pure chance. Our beautiful duty is to imagine that there exists a labyrinth and a thread. We might never come across the thread; or we might stumble upon it unexpectedly and then lose it again in an act of faith, in the rhythm of a line, in a dream, in word called philosophy or in a moment of mere and simple happiness”The thread of the Story, Jorge Luis BorgesAs a transitable sculpture, the vaulted gothic porche, place of transit, mutation and reflection, is proposed as a space in which a new spatial tissue is built. The conductive thread in a way of Ariadna’s thread, travels across every element: archs, columns and vaults are entwined to shape the laberith of lines that draw a new lecture of the space.Project made within ex-studio by Ivan Juárez with the collaboration of Patricia Meneses and Hide Kazu

     

     

    Ivan Juárez,practicing artist, landscape architect and educator. Currently living in Wroclaw, Poland. Founder and principal of x-studio, Founder of Sensory Landscapes.

     

    He is being selected by Xi·Art Museum Generative Project 2020-2021.

     

    Personal statement

     

    My main field of interest lies on the relationship between artistic practices and different environmental disciplines and how this connection can be a medium to establish poetic dialogues between art, natural habitats and society. I consider artistic research as a wider vision of understanding and examining the environment that surrounds us, in which every project can enrich itself through diverse views.

     

    The projects conceived in my research practice propose new narratives to relate us with the environment, exploring new aspects to redefine the boundaries between natural habitats and human beings by creating sensitive interventions that leave spaces for new encounters. Through my practice, I am interested on providing experiential approaches by incorporating the notion of specific contexts, emphasizing their qualities. Besides, my projects explore diverse type of ecosystems in dialogue with bodily experience and senses. Since its conception, my creative-research process is closely joined to the surroundings, in which I develop a connection with the landscape applying natural cycles, seasonality, local knowledge, materials and techniques. In this way, the projects interact with the environment, generating new ways of coexistence.

    Many thanks to Ivan Juárez for his support and authorisation of this article.

    This article is for exchanging and sharing only. The copyright of image, context, audio and video belongs to the original author.

    Date

    2022年1月11日

    Category

    Future Institute, Future Institute

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