———— The project

Migrating Landscapes was selected by a national juried competition as Canada’s official entry at the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture.It will be presented by Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture and Jae-Sung Chon, who joined together for this project to form a new entity: the Migrating Landscape Organizer (MLO).

Migrating Landscapes will act as a forum for Canadian architects and designers to investigate, provoke, document and expose the unique manifestations of cultural memory that overlay Canada today and how it might emerge in the future. MLO will design a ‘new landscape’ – an abstract exhibition infrastructure – and will invite, through a national competition, young Canadian architects and designers to design ‘dwellings’ based on their cultural memories. The invitation is an enactment of ‘settling-unsettling’, and the dwellings will discuss various forms of migrated memories ‘settled-unsettled’ into the ‘new landscape’. The dwellings and the landscape, together, will form the exhibition at Venice 2012.

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ENTRY 144

[Practitioners & Academics]

 

Team Members: BAECHLER, Amber. BAECHLER, Mark.

 

Mark and Amber Baechler create art and architecture in the city of Toronto. Amber is a graduate student at Carleton University in the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism. Her research investigates the role of the gallery in exhibiting architecture. She holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies (B.A.S.) degree from Carleton University. Mark is an architect and sculptor. His research and design explores mythological atmospheres and the theological representations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He received Master of Architecture (M.Arch) and Bachelor of Architectural Studies (B.A.S.) degrees from Carleton University. 

Photo: Left: BAECHLER, Amber.  Right: BAECHLER, Mark.

Video Link: http://vimeo.com/36359977

Project Description:

Re-Metropolis is a metaphor on the relationship between the city of Toronto and its inhabitants.

Re-Metropolis is a metaphor on the relationship between the city of Toronto and its inhabitants. In contrast to Ontario’s rural landscape which is picturesque and static, the city responds to inhabitation by continually transforming its program and image. Migrants are the stimulus in this active urban landscape. Re-Metropolis reveals that the city itself is unsettled and invites an exploration into potential urban forms and compositions.  The buildings that make up the city are not fixed; the model is responsive and can be rearranged by those who choose to dwell in it.