Performed by Carmen Arias, Helena Eichlinger, Miriam Enssel, Lea Geerkens, Florian Clemens Meier, Alexandra Müller and Lennart.
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What is Supraterranean Urbanism and
what does it want from me?
The modular ladder was designed as an approachable product, under the fictional context of a congress for supraterranean urbanism. This element aimed to serve as an everyday tool for the active and free access to the rooflandscape.
During its exhibition at Kunstpavillon, a group of four performers showed a practical example of the use of the modular ladder. For this, they followed a spoken instruction that guided them into the pavilion’s rooftop, while discussing the connotations and concerns of the third layer of the landscape as an extension of the public space.
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“Supraterranean urbanism was born at the beginning of the last century, as the result of a dream shared by a generation of architects. They dreamt of bringing light, air and nature into the congested and polluted modern metropolis by elevating it. Vertical, flying, above! And so, a congress was founded to present new technological advances that would encourage vertical thinking, being and constructing. This new higher layer in the urban landscape brought hope for a new future to come. The elevated city, with enough air around and over itself, promised space for rational thinking, personal development, and the achievement of one’s ideal self.
Now, the fifth edition of the International Congress of Supraterranean Technology and Urbanism aims to disassociate supraterranean architecture from any utopian construction. Its motto the reoccupation of the above exposes that, such an elevated city, already exists. Above us, as a roof landscape waiting to be annexed to the city below.”
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