Exhibited works. Pavilion for the exhibition and debate of the new urban plan of the federal capital in St. Pölten. Austria. 1988. Adolf Krischanitz
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https://doi.org/10.5821/palimpsesto.16.5143Keywords:
Light architecture, temporary pavilion, exhibition, form.Abstract
The article examines the “An der Traisen” pavilion built in 1988 by Adolf Krischanitz, destined to host the exhibition and discussion sessions on the future growth of St. Pölten as the capital of Niederösterreich (Lower Austria). While both the small, temporary building and the exhibition were designed jointly to present and represent the imminent urban transformation, it is possible to find some contradictions in the dialogue between the architecture of the project and the architecture exhibited, which illustrates a turning point in coetaneous architecture.
While the project of the city addressed by V. Magnano-Lampugniani and W. Wang, and whose exhibition was devised by D. Steiner, G. Schöllhammer, C. Knechtl and G. Eichenber, composed a collage city of well-established reference works in the history of architecture, the temporary pavilion was presented as an experimental space, assembled with light materials, that revealed an intense and vibrant luminosity. It consisted of two volumes, a slender three-storey prism that hosted the exhibition, and a cylinder, like a Tholos covered by a tensegrity dome, that represented the democratic agora where a variety of activities, debates and work groups took place and stimulated the construction of the urbs and civitas of the future capital.
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