Threshold Landscape
Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2022
International competition, winner project
The project wants to reflect on what durability means for the Landscape and how its cyclic characteristics intersect with the rhythm and tendencies of everyday life. It asks how temporality is defined in nature and how it can be affected by fragile urban conditions.
Within its geometry and composition, the project detaches from the context in an attempt to underline the contrast between the human measuring system of time and space with the spontaneity and temporality of the landscape.
The coexistence of the city of Tbilisi, with its peculiar landscape, transliterates into a combination of urban growth, natural topography, and infrastructure, composing a complex urban fabric concurrently dotted with spread bodies of water. The constant and hectic expansion of the city borders is one of the most prevailing force that, during continuous extension, disrupts the underneath layers of the territory, often leading to the complete erasure of ephemeral landscape elements, such as seasonal bodies of water.
Like many other lakes around Tbilisi, Mshrali Lake disappears for much of the year due to dry weather and the recent reduction in rainfall.
Threshold Landscape consists of 121 wooden elements, laths of square cross-section, that emerge from the ground without ever exceeding the maximum height of the lake. Thus, during the wet season, the entire installation should disappear and reappear during the dry season. This system of wooden elements, with the upper surfaces coloured in reflective silver paint, speaks for the lake’s water surface during the dry season, keeping the upper end at a constant level and the lower end tucked into the ground.
Each wooden element was carefully burned and elaborated towards its impermeability and lasting water resistance. The burned surface resonates with the peculiar dry biodiversity and recalls the circumscribed vegetation.
Threshold Landscape
Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2022
International competition, winner project
The coexistence of the city of Tbilisi, with its peculiar landscape, transliterates into a combination of urban growth, natural topography, and infrastructure, composing a complex urban fabric concurrently dotted with spread bodies of water. The constant and hectic expansion of the city borders is one of the most prevailing forces that, during continuous extension, disrupt the underneath layers of the territory, often leading to the complete erasure of ephemeral landscape elements, such as seasonal bodies of water.
Like many other lakes around Tbilisi, Mshrali Lake disappears for much of the year due to dry weather and the recent reduction in rainfall.
The project wants to reflect on what durability means for the Landscape and how its cyclic characteristics intersect with the rhythm and tendencies of everyday life. It asks how temporality is defined in nature and how it can be affected by fragile urban conditions.
Within its geometry and composition, the project detaches from the context in an attempt to underline the contrast between the human measuring system of time and space with the spontaneity and temporality of the landscape.
Threshold Landscape consists of 121 wooden elements, laths of square cross-section, that emerge from the ground without ever exceeding the maximum height of the lake. Thus, during the wet season, the entire installation should disappear and reappear during the dry season. This system of wooden elements, with the upper surfaces coloured in reflective silver paint, speaks for the lake’s water surface during the dry season, keeping the upper end at a constant level and the lower end tucked into the ground.
Each wooden element was carefully burned and elaborated towards its impermeability and lasting water resistance. The burned surface resonates with the peculiar dry biodiversity and recalls the circumscribed vegetation.
