Venice is a spatial construct shaped by human ingenuity and collective intervention over centuries. Map of Glass makes visible these interconnected relationships, offering an experiential representation of Venice’s unique interplay between the natural environment and artificial intervention. By reproducing Venice in miniature, the installation highlights the city’s inherent fragility and complexity. Over time, glassblowers on the island of Murano have produced not only exquisite glass objects but also significant amounts of glass waste. By repurposing this waste glass as an aggregate in bio-based cement, the project highlights how artificial systems can be reconfigured to work in harmony with natural processes. A cement-glass mixture is poured into plywood forms, allowed it to dry, and then released and finished. Glass fragments are revealed when the objects are ground and sanded, creating a terrazzo-like effect. At the end of the exhibition, the map will be disassembled: allowing the individual pieces to be collected and sold singularly, either as a whole or in groups.
Participants
BARKOW LEIBINGER BERLIN, GERMANY Frank Barkow, Kansas City, USA, 1957. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Bozeman, USA. Regine Leibinger, Stuttgart, Germany, 1963. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and the USA.
CAPATTISTAUBACH BERLIN, GERMANY Tancredi Capatti, Milan, Italy, 1972. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Matthias Staubach, Brandenburg, Germany, 1968. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Technical Collaborators
Isil Tuganli and Manuel Vöge, BNB – Beton und Naturstein Babelsberg (Fabricator); Buro Happold (Structural Engineer)
Team
Barkow Leibinger: Frank Barkow, Regine Leibinger, Jan Blifernez, Andreas Moling, Adin Rimland, Francesca Robustelli; capattistaubach: Tancredi Capatti, Matthias Staubach, Mattia Mazzotta
Supporters
BNB – Beton und Naturstein Babelsberg; Buro Happold
