The installation is conceived as a project-manifesto, a way of expressing an architecture in a state of equilibrium between the specificity of a place and the autonomy of the form. It establishes a sentimental connection with the reality of a place through a specific and perceptive relationship with the surroundings, in this case with the Corderie building. At the same time,through a primitive, Povera approach it seeks to transcend the time and the physical place in which it has come into being and achieve autonomy and independence in its own right. It is on the opposition between monument and sentiment that our work and the meaning of the installation lie: in the pursuit of an architecture that is specific and autonomous, intimate and monumental, which aspires to belong to a place and at the same time to belong to all places.

Barozzi/Veiga invited to Biennale Architettura 2016 curated by Alejandro Aravena.