Project Identification: Experiencing i-Mesh's Soft Architecture in the visual and poetic prototype of the installation ‘Weaving Architecture’ at the Biennale Architettura 2018.
EMBT Miralles Tagliabue's project for the Clichy-Montfermeil Metro Station in Paris, a critical junction aiming for identity and urban integration, shares a natural semantic and linguistic affinity with i-Mesh. This proximity, both formal and intrinsic, reveals the "visual and poetic prototype" as an anticipation of future engineering on a real scale.
The project, the result of extensive research on patterns by the creative team led by Benedetta Tagliabue, incorporates African signs and iconographies through a blend of weaves, twists, natural and artificial colors, layered lights, shadows, and radiance. The use of non-flammable and durable fibers, as an identifying and iconic matrix, emphasizes the dominance of black carbon, white glass, the radiance of basalt, and the vibrant orange of colored Kevlar.
i-Mesh, multifaceted, asserts itself as an art object capable of interpreting the form, consciousness, and significance of public space. Borrowed from the performance realm and repurposed, it adapts its language to diverse expressive needs—momentarily minimalist, then decorative—to explore the contemporary infinity encapsulated within a thread.
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