You are warmly invited to the Press Preview of Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 www.tab.ee. The public opening of the TAB 2024 Curatorial Exhibition will begin in the museum’s main hall at 18:00. This year’s theme explores innovative approaches to designing and building architecture with repurposed and reused materials, envisioning a sustainable future.
“Resources For a Future”
Open to the public on 10 October 2024
The vernissage continues on Friday, October 11th, with the unveiling of “No Time to Waste” Pavilion, designed by Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton and Matthieu Brasebin. The pavilion focuses on creating a meaningful experience within a structure built from repurposed materials, featuring interconnected spaces that provide both shelter and purpose.
As TAB 2024 head curator Anhelina L. Starkova asserts:
“With the recent global pandemic and wars, the social distancing we experienced has raised interest in the “local”. The need for global awareness and knowledge forced us to come together.” She adds, “Besides my personal life, my work is being affected by the war, as I live in Ukraine.
I am closer to the brutally honest reality of how the architecture and the infrastructure of a city is designed not only by public crises and health issues, but mostly by the destructive power of war.
In my curatorial concept, I wanted to highlight that architects don’t control the building system. We are the building system, and this system will be the most legitimate foundation of the world to come.”
The main objective of “RESOURCES FOR A FUTURE” is to reimagine the usage of local resources in a way that beyond aesthetics, they will serve not only a privileged minority, but everyone.
The curatorial exhibition will bring together participants in three thematic sections:
RESOURCE 1: SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Social Intelligence section is governed by private and public interests. The viability of the building is anchored to the intellectual perspectives of the social space in which we live. How does social urbanism, forced by the unexpected, keep our cities alive?
And how can we use our intellect to operate within a city of limited resources? How, by attracting people, does the building form the most powerful tool for the habitable city and what is the role of locals in a global urban policy?
Projects: A special curatorial project by DAGOpen Arhitektuuriburo (Estonia), “Ornamental Records From Tallinn” by Déchelette Architecture (France), “Space of earth” by Raphael Zuber (Switzerland).
RESOURCE 2: BUILDING CONCEPT
Building Concept is searching for translative tools in constructing possibilities for forthcoming architecture. The union of materials and social powers regulate order for a spatial formation of the building.
By positioning edifices as not only erected, complete forms but as sensemaking systems, we can experience safety and meaning in our cities. Diverse concepts of building inner modelling, typological logistics and structural retrofitting will be explored in this section.
Projects: “Priorities, Needs, Future” by Alfredo Vanotti (Switzerland), “Kontiinum” by Apex Arhitektuuribüroo (Estonia), “Stubborn Host” by Architect Must (Estonia), “Rising Raw” by Gus Wustemann (Switzerland), “Repair tectonics” by LLRRLLRR (Estonia), “Thoravej 29: A Building Repurposing Itself” by Pihlmann Architects (Denmark).
RESOURCE 3: MATERIAL FORMATION
The material culture as a resource is an essential reserve to which a builder is attached. But how do we organise material culture around architecture today? How is our understanding of materials defined and evolving in relation to an architectural timeline?
How does material pragmaticism dictate urban rules and respond to social crises through construction? The Material Formation section will provide a space for questioning and answering the ruling material principles in architecture.
Projects: “Networks, Not Products” by BC Architects (Belgium), “Erosion and patina” by Capaul Blumenthal Architekten (Switzerland),“Minecraft” by KAMP Arhitektid (Estonia), “Reformulating Reuse” by Pihlmann architects (Denmark), “Open House Day” by ReReRe (Estonia), “Earth Architecture: Tradition and Potential” by Roger Boltshauser (Switzerland).
TAB 2024 Official Programme consists of six main events:
The TAB Curatorial Exhibition, TAB Symposium, TAB Final Networking Event, Installation Competition Programme, the RAK x TAB Present(ing) Resources Seminar, and a curatorial tour of the TAB Curatorial Exhibition. TAB 2024 will feature satellite events including various seminars, workshops, and more.
OFFICIAL PROGRAMME TAB 2024:
RAK X TAB Present(ing) Resources Seminar
Erinevate Tubade Klubi
9 October 2024
Curatorial Exhibition “Resources For a Future”
Museum of Estonian Architecture
10 October — 1 December 2024
Symposium Estonian
Academy of Arts
11 October 2024
Pavilion Launch “No Time to Waste”
Balti Jaam
11 October 2024
Curatorial tour at TAB Curatorial Exhibition
Museum of Estonian Architecture
12 October 2024
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