Urbanautica

Frozen Rooms

Elba collective

PORTFOLIO shortlisted   CALL EXTINCTION. THE WORLD WITHOUT US
What happens is that even building take a long winter’s nap (go on hibernation), we are dealing with several towns which fall asleep for a considerable amount of time waiting to be awakened by the arrival of the tourists, the firsts quieter and most shy than the intrusive last ones.
A forced on and off extinction, which leaves entire buildings and structures suspended in time and space, cyclically, year by year, up to becomes a routine, made up of preservation rituals capable of making them unrecognizable when compared to the high season set.
They are not abandoned but frozen, they are alive but moving extremely slowly, the architectural casing finally appears as it had been originally designed, they show up like two-dimensional sceneries due to the limitation of the human being interaction
We wanted to investigate this metamorphosis, which nothing can be done except waiting in silence, so we just sat down in this great waiting room and look.
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