The inauguration of the official Greek participation in the 19th Architecture Biennale Venice They are held today in the Greek stand in the Jardini area, where this year’s event is hosted under the general title “IntelligolleCollective”.

The Greek proposal in the organization is the fruit of a collective effort, bearing the seal of the Technical University of Crete and constitutes an interdisciplinary venture and relates to the restoration and re -publishing of the social entirety of the 16th -century Venetian Neurons in Heraklion and Hania. construction.

A wooden architectural exhibition model is depicted, with internal configuration details.

The idea, derivative with theoretical reflection and specialized technical research and social, but also environmental sensitivity, essentially embraces the common historical and geopolitical factor, sharing from the past, but always, three “seafood” cities: cities).

Cities associated, not only with historical architectural features, but also from that common Mediterranean cultural stamp, as Fernan Brodel describes it in his homonymous work.

The News of Chania and Heraklion carry the seaside tradition in their bodies, which encompasses the intelligence of nautical art and its technique, the acclimatization of the commercial spirit in the environment of its spread and the relationships it establishes with the societies where it is adjacent. This spirit the Greek proposal seeks to revive, reconstruct and reconstruct the Neoria in the two major Cretan ports.

The team, who worked for several years this plan under the supervision of the Professor at the School of Architectural Engineering, at the Technical University of Crete, Nikolaou Skouteli and Klimis Aslanidis, includes Elisabetta Molteni, Antonis Karamitros, Anna Tsitonakis and Christina. In their long interdisciplinary research, in the context of the grand program, architecture was combined with other disciplines: history, geology and geophysical, but also with structural, chemical engineers, with acoustic experts and electromechanical installation and lighting. In their new use, Neoria will not only be a monument of architectural tradition, but also a vibrant source of “technical documentation and cultural reintegration”, as the inspirers of the proposal aspire.

As Professor N. Skoutelis told RES-EIA journalist, “In this year’s event, we have marginally integrated an issue that concerns Intelligens, as humanity means it today. We believe that on this trilogy (intelligence, nature, collective) the work we propose to Neoria of Chania and Heraklion combine the issues of nature, land and sea, the question of history, from the middle of the 1,500 to the present day that these spaces were used, and through this path we can take this through this route, spaces. “

“We have chosen conventional ways with the character and spatial virtues of these young men to highlight the modern step of architecture with materials that are in line with the idea of” reversible “materials. But also to solve the problem of static buildings, “he added.

Mr. Aslanidis, for his part, said that “we present two of our studies as a workshop of documenting and restoring historical buildings and sets of the Technical University of Crete with comfort from the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Chania for the Venetian Neoria of Chania and Heraklion. The two works are presented here combined. There is a large wooden model, on a scale of 1:15, built in Greece and transferred to Venice, which combines these two studies and at the same time presents the designs and history of the bands so that one has a complete picture. “

As Mr. Aslanidis emphasized, these two projects are going to be auctioned immediately and implemented, as they “concern the local communities of Chania and Heraklion, and here comes the relationship with the last concept that was made by the Biennale Curator, the collective”.

Through the wooden patterns on the 1:15 scale, digital representations and explanations for the theoretical background of the study, the viewer understands in a single way that regeneration in Neoria will give a new image and an improved use of the space and will highlight the historical weight of two emblems. They will now cease to be a romantic “postcard” of their ports, but will be reused as active organizations, hosting permanent and periodic exhibitions, events, experimental scenes, meeting places and daily cohabitation – from sales. Thus showing that history can be in line with new uses, technical interventions and hyperlinks that the use of artificial intelligence requires the design and functioning of new constructions.

The 19th Venice Architecture Biennale inaugurates on May 24 and will run until November 23, 2025.

*The photos were given to RES-EIA by George-Vyron Davos