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In Empedocles’s concept of the four elements, humidum represents the variability that arises from the mixing of water and air. “We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of the element air. We are immersed in water in a volatile state, submerged in matter that is in constant motion”, (Evangelista Torricelli). Architecture, which typically shields us from atmospheric phenomena, can also open us to experiencing them more fully. Vitruvius wrote that an architect should “know the inclination of the heavens, which the Greeks call ηθίιαηα – klimata”, and understand the properties of air and water. Architecture can engage in a dialogue with water in its various states. Precipitation, vapour, sediment, spray, dew, clouds, and fog all play a part in shaping it. Observing the flow of rainwater immediately reveals the subtle slopes of the land. The placement of old water infrastructure points to the highest elevations in a city. Thanks to landscape memory, floodwaters return to old channels. Even the smallest ripples, streaks, reflections, and eddies on the surface of rivers and lakes speak to the dynamic nature of water: its streams, flows, various types of currents, and the contours of the riverbed.
The workshop invites participants of all backgrounds to engage in observations with the aim of translating it into design tools, it will be articulated in a field excursion, rainchain making and water surface tension explorations, with the scope of deepening our understanding of water.

Guided by the idea of Amplifying Nature, the Warsaw based CENTRALA – Małgorzata Kuciewicz & Simone De Iacobis create projects based on exploring the relationship between architecture and natural processes. For them, architecture is a flow, not merely a static form; and gravity, water circulation as well as atmospheric and astronomical phenomena are its building blocks. CENTRALA sees architecture that combines the intimate, human scale with the scale of the planet as a means of tuning us into the rhythm of the world around us.

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It is a project of the tranzit.org network.
tranzit.sk is a member of the network.

ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit.org.

This project was created with the support of Polish Institute in Bratislava and Romanian Cultural Institute

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