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index
1_TANTITUBI
2_BARETTO ALTATTO
3_TEMPORARY DANCEFLOOR
3 Cecina (Italy) 5 Milano (Italy) 7 Milano (Italy) 9 Milano (Italy)
4_SINISTRA
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TANTITUBI
Cecina (Italy)_43°23’31.9”N 10°42’27.6”E
year: 2021
Tantitubi was born from an exploration on the waste produced by construction sites by offering an alternative to the normal waste disposal process.
The materials used were extracted from available surplus, disfigured and assembled to meet a need. Self-produced, its composition elements are hydraulic pipes and metal rods, while the tools used were a drill and a circular saw.
Tantitubi shows a desire to disobey the common production chain of domestic objects by denying their seriality, distribution, and its commercialization in favor of self-produced authorship and on-site construction.
Transfiguration, alteration, and conversion are mutations that modify the mutilated building element, now ennobled and renewed.
The domestic domain is reclaimed by castrated objects that find in their assemblage and functionalization an unexplored purification and vitality. This Frankenstainian language and technology arises from a banal need and becomes an object of protest.
Tantitubi is assembled from fragments of a complex system, inextricably connected to the infrastructure, economy, politics and ecology.
BARETTO ALTATTO
Milan (Italy)_45°30’13.0”N 9°12’33.2”E
year: 2022
The owners of the renowned restaurant Altatto in Milan asked Zattere to design their ouer space Baretto.
Starting from an existing platform and table structures, the intervention has been framed between a series of actions that ranged from subtraction to addition to layering. The project is thus divided into several individual interventions built in less than two weeks.
The umbrellas are self built structure designed to be foldable and applicable to the existing handrails. Closing them, facilitates the putting on and taking off of the waterproof cover made by us.
The tables were recovered, refurbished, and the panels on top replaced by a wooden panel supporting another one from HDPE industrial waste.
The seats, previously made with cushions glued to the wooden structures of the tables, has been made with these reused material used as fillings for new ones, wrapped by handmade and removable waterproof covers, plus straps to attach them to the table.
The existing puffs had the same problem related to the overcollected water and humidity by the cushions: we kept the whole seats producing another tipology of removable waterproof cover.
The plant holders are braced boxes with a downsized platform to let the water flow.
LOCATION: MILAN (ITALY) 45°30’13.0”N 9°12’33.2”E
TEMPORARY DANCEFLOOR
Milan (Italy)_45°28’52.2”N 9°10’54.1”E year: 2022
With the aim to design a temporary dancefloor to cover and sunshade a part of the garden to host a stage and a dancefloor for the event “Rumore Tra I Rami” of Edera collective, where many cultural realities of Milan gathered, it has been built with the minimum budget possible, and mainly with found materials.
The 10h-life structure has been built using: 8 pillars made with steel bars’ sheets of 2x2.8m made cylindrical with fixing laces and wrapped in silver fabric; 3 covers of the same silver fabric, for a total of 6x18m to shade; 16 construction site plints found on site, to temporarily anchor and stabilize the overall structural balance; and 120m of steel cables, to lift the cover, connecting it with the pillars, and connecting the pillars to the plints.
It has been mounted and dismantled in 2 days.
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SINISTRA
Milan (Italy)_45°29’31.8”N 9°12’58.0”E year: 2022
SINISTRA (Leftover Debris From Construction Sites) delves into the process of unveiling discarded objects produced by construction sites, offering a meditation on these ecosystems: altered universes, very close to us yet invisible and unattainable, inhabited by relics of a building culture based on demolition.
It was the unexpected result of a process of digging into the ground, looking for traces, signs and mineral glimpses of different narratives.
More than just scraps of building materials, these relics are living beings or fossils, taking on the properties of what Jane Bennett calls ‘vibrant matter’, demonstrating an indivisible and symbiotic relationship between human and planetary action.
They are traces of a process of fracture and cicatrization, trauma and healing that says something about the impossibility of a totally closed system, the permeability of membranes and the breakdown of boundaries.
Like real or imaginary ancient animals, we collected them in a bestiary.
