TBVS Triennale Bovisa

Designed as a temporary exhibition space with a 3-year sell-by date, the TBVS is to fill in for part of the Milan Triennale’s headquarters currently being renovated. But it projects a strong image and an ambitious goal: to highlight and to inject vitality into Bovisa, the district that symbolises Milanese industrial growth. Text by Pierluigi Cerri. Photography by Paolo Rosselli. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni

Designed as a temporary exhibition space with a 3-year sell-by date, the TBVS is to fill in for part of the Milan Triennale’s headquarters currently being renovated. But it projects a strong image and an ambitious goal: to highlight and to inject vitality into Bovisa, the district that symbolises Milanese industrial growth. Text by Pierluigi Cerri. Photography by Paolo Rosselli. Edited by Loredana Mascheroni.

With all the talk in architectural circles about the notion of duration, statements for the future, and constructions worthy or aspiring to become monuments, let it be said that this installation within the fibrillary fabric of Bovisa is not architecture. Rather, it is an object. And its construction materials reveal an incompleteness that shows its provisional nature. Not so much in its stopgap status, but in the sense of a derivation from the Latin provisus, the past participle of providere: to provide something that will meet a need.

It will ensure that the territory under transformation has a structure necessary for the intention to communicate (or amplify) the events proposed by the new developments of the Bovisa Triennale (or TBVS, to say it with a mischievous eye on US fashions). And so, the fronts of what is meant to be an ephemeral building will be screens able to unveil the web of events, with the aid of typography and dynamic figures. Furthermore, this structure should be a catalyst of liberating encounters, a multidisciplinary crossroads and a children’s playground (the open square is marked out accordingly).

I am thinking of the large population of students, engineers, architects and designers. And, also, of the cultivators of materials. This seemingly fragile structure is to be used until it is worn out, when one day it will vanish as quickly as it appeared. Before it rises again in the shape of True Great Architecture, in form, image and configuration. Pierluigi Cerri

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