Veneetsiasse sõidavad Urmo Vaikla, Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla, Ingel Vaikla, Veronika Valk, Maria Pukk ja Ivar Lubjak. Palju õnne meile!
Võistlustöö AEG esitab Veneetsias küsimuse HOW LONG IS THE LIFE OF A BUILDING? Töö käsitleb väärika modernismipärandi hääbumist läbi ühe hoone, milleks on valitud Tallinna Linnahall.
Pikemas perspektiivis ei ole igavesi hooneid. Kaasaegse maailma majanduskriisi oludes pole rentaabel hüljata majad, millel on suurt joont ning piisavalt potensiaali kaasaegseteks muutusteks. Selleks, et säilitada, tuleb muuta. Et olemasolevat rekonstrueerida, on vaja arhitektuuri väärtustada. Eestis on tunduvalt rohkem hooneid muinsuskaitse all kui Põhjamaades. See iseeneset ei taga veel hoonete säilimist. Kuidas leida hoonele uus kasutus?
Postmodernsete sugemetega paefassaadiga monumentaalne Tallinna Linnahalli hoone on DOCOMOMO kaitse all. Teatrisaali ja jäähalliga hoone taastas sõjaväe ja tööstuse poolt röövitud linna ühenduse merega. Siiski seisab maja 21. sajandil hüljatuna. Hoones on aeg seiskunud, vaid küte undab ja kell tiksub. Täna leiab see kasutust politsei ning narkokoerte treeningu katsepolügonina. Linnahalli katuselt võtavad päikesetõusu vastu Vanalinna koolide abituriendid peale kooli lõpupidu.
Vaata ka Sirp, 16.03.2012 - "Millest räägib seekordne Eesti ekspositsioon Veneetsia arhitektuuribiennaalil?"
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Who will go to Venice?
Who will go to Venice?
We won the competition of exposition of Estonian contemporary architecture for 13th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice - la Biennale di Venezia!
Urmo Vaikla, Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla, Ingel Vaikla, Veronika Valk, Maria Pukk and Ivar Lubjak will go to Venice. Congratulations to us! Lunga vita la biennale di Venezia!
The new Estonian exposition for La Biennale di Venezia 13th International Architecture Exhibition looks at contestable futures of modernist architectural legacy. The focus is on a case study of Linnahall, monumental Soviet-era proto-post-modernist complex under metamorphic pressure for change, but also under heritage protection upon DOCOMOMO initiative, in key location in Tallinn, capital of Estonia.
The jury selected this concept due to its integration of a clear message and intricate contexts, but also for its potential to produce experiential spatial atmosphere in Venice Arsenale exhibition space. Furthermore, Linnahall is controversial in its historic and ideological legacy, likely to invoke multiplicity of associations for viewers.
Completed in 1980 when the Moscow Olympics yacht races were held in Tallinn, the building won a Grand Prix from the Interarch 1983 World Biennale in Sofia and in 1984, a Soviet Union State Award. Linnahall, originally named after Lenin, succeeded to reconnect the city with the sea and to return some of the waterfront -- closed-off industrial and military zone -- back to the public.
The exposition presents a question, How Long is the Life of a Building? On one hand, the exposition investigates deterioration of remarkable buildings, as everything artificial which is not in use, breaks apart. To preserve a building, it is necessary to transform it. But how to find its new purpose? A historic building is a work of art, yet our common ground.
On the other hand, it poses a question of "dignified aging" of the built environment. Spine of the society’s physical identity, how can the existing structure simultaneously accommodate all the identities of different generations and cultural backgrounds, nurtured by shifting times, memories and tacit knowledge accumulated? And still prove desirably "profitable" in neo-liberal terms?
The exposition highlights the values of adaptability and flexibility in buildings’ functionality, contrasting undocumented case studies of abandoned modernist architectural legacy in Estonia and Eastern Europe, with currently predominant patterns of reformist thought. The nonconformist architectural icons require re-evolution of the term "use value", which is of worldwide urban concern.
This futrospective, as well as retrospective responsibility presented at the exposition is aimed at broader international community of critical thinkers, to enable reflection on possible links between the socio-economic paradigm of "deregulation", and the emergence of the post-capitalist condition. How is the art of negotiation benefitting creative re-use of aging pile of stone, gracefully?
Recorded moving images, rejuvenating "best-of" flashbacks from the story of Linnahall, interviews with designers and end-users, become instrumental devices, inviting the visitor into an exploration of inner sensations -- intimate human contact -- evoked by "ageless" architecture, to unlock memories of one’s own familiar settings, home context, similar abandoned yet dignified and extraordinary buildings and places.
The city's functioning is characterized by its "plasticity", or its capacity to re-appropriate vital parts according to experiences undergone by the society. The exposition is, in this sense, an eclipse, a search for functional realities… Incorporating institutional, ideological and structural processes. Bringing architectural fragments, urban events and spatial concepts into tenable meaning.
Commissioner: Ülar Mark
Curator: Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla
Exhibitors: Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla, Urmo Vaikla, Ingel Vaikla, Veronika Valk, Maria Pukk, Ivar Lubjak
Presented by
NGO Estonian Centre of Architecture
The Union of Estonian Architects
Press contact: Veronika Valk, zizi@ziziyoyo.com, ziziland@gmail.com, +372 55 15 153
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