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SUMMARY:Booklaunch Urban Legends Trieste
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DESCRIPTION:Catherine Gay\, Götz Menzel\, \nAlexandros Fotakis\, Claartj
 e Vurmans\n \nStudio Gay Menzel\nEPFL ENAC SAR\n\nFor our 2nd year bachel
 or design studio of 2022-23 we chose the Mediterranean city of Trieste as 
 a shared imaginary and point of reference. Located on the threshold betwee
 n Western and Eastern Europe\, it was an extremely cosmopolitan place wher
 e different identities came together and contributed to the sedimentation 
 of multiple narratives. Austrians\, Italians\, Slovenes\, Greeks\, English
 \, Armenians\, Turkish and many more lived and worked together in this har
 bour town\, which belonged to the Habsburg Austrian empire.\nTravelling to
  Trieste gave us the opportunity to discover and to discuss the plural lan
 guages of architecture. For this we made the selection of 15 vestibules st
 emming from different architectural periods that shaped the city: Neoclass
 icism\, Art Nouveau\, Rationalism and Brutalism. Vestibules accumulate a p
 anoply of architectural elements in a relatively small space (doors\, floo
 rs\, walls\, stairs\, etc). Their different articulations tell us about th
 e spirit of the time they were conceived in – their reoccurrence of the 
 permanence of architectural principles.\n\nUrban Legends Trieste contains 
 our surveys of these vestibules\, which were composed as analytical drawin
 gs in the beginning of the academic year\, combining plan\, section\, elev
 ation and details on one single sheet. It also accumulates the rich output
  which grew out of these initial investigations: films\, models\, double e
 xposures and finally architectural projects.\n\nThrough illustrations and 
 texts\, the publication not only gives insight into the particularities of
  Triestino culture but also documents our teaching methodology which we ha
 ve been able to implement at EPFL for the past six years. Sudio GayMenzel
 ’s approach perceives architectural intervention stemming from a site an
 d a first desire\, by defining its character in advance. We call it contex
 tual imaginary.
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