{"id":11819,"date":"2021-04-02T04:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T04:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/?p=11819"},"modified":"2021-04-02T04:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T04:32:41","slug":"a-pause-from-the-city-a-background-for-the-city-z33-house-for-contemporary-art-design-and-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/a-pause-from-the-city-a-background-for-the-city-z33-house-for-contemporary-art-design-and-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"A pause from the city, a background for the city. Z33 – House for contemporary art, design and architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At Zeppelin, we are obsessed with going as deep as possible into the fabric of a project. Well, here the architechture, the context and the details are interwoven in such a complex way, the process is so fascinating an clearly exemplary, that we chose to present the project as a succesion of frames. telling a complex story through its details; the close-ups show sketches, poetic representations, plans and details, the four tupes of models (porcelain, ceramic, loom fibers, at 1:10), construction photos and then, the final images. <\/p>\n

Proiect: Francesca Torzo<\/strong>
\nText: Lorena Brează<\/strong>
\nPhoto: Francesca Torzo, Gion von Albertini<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve read somewhere the phrase “slowing downwards”. It refers growing down instead of outward, to one’s essence. Instead of upward climbing, the path may just as well turn inward, in the depth. Z33 House for contemporary art, design and architecture calls for a “slowing downwards” attitude. Located in the Belgian city of Hasselt, the project is like a pause button from the rest of the rushing urban picture.
\nAnd it is almost literally an island of silence – Z33 has in its center a garden surrounded by brick buildings. The buildings – a 1958 museum and the newer intervention – host the exhibition spaces, giving the impression that everything fits together perfectly. This is made possible by the ways Francesca Torzo responds to the context – the façade towards the street is a silent, almost blind wall facing a contrastingly busy city. On the inside, the building opens to the garden in a distant 19th century style.<\/p>\n

$\"02_Z33_acuarela$ <\/a><\/p>\n

*Watercolour of the garden<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Both existing and newer buildings (Wing 19& Wing 58) hold exhibition spaces, functioning “like a city within the city”- actually rephrasing the city of Hasselt at a smaller scale.<\/p>\n

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Models:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\t