location: Kochi-Muziris Biennale – Cochin [IN]
year: 2016
team: Giombattista Areddia/Asif Rahman/Mohamad Yassin
category: pavilion 
status: build 

DEGRADATION MOVIMENT MANIFESTO

 

In the present era, Degradability, Sustainability and Liability are parts of the responsibility of Architecture.

The degradation movement in architecture upholds the biologic , ie the logic for a degradable need. Architecture is a permanent sign in any territory.
During major events like , Olympics ,National Games, Biennale etc multiple structures (or buildings) are constructed.

In most of the cases , the structures constructed are permanent ones , making use of heavy construction material.

This approach leads to many practical difficulties in demolition and disposal.
More often , the remains are abandoned , lonely temples at the site of the events.
Many of the structures are erected as a sign of the prosperity and strength of a nation’s economy and the cities unconsciously pay the price. The burning desire of architecture,like a vampire’s thirst for blood,leave the body dead , with permanent scars.
At the end of the event , after the entire world dance and celebrate, the city remains a scarred body,devoid of life.
The city is raped and the left behind ghost town takes decades to metabolize.

We criticize these unconscious political choices, with living buildings – Buildings which arise from the nature

and return to the nature, as though they never existed.
These structures thus demonstrate the liability on the moments they represent.Our vision is to maintain the life of the city and help in healing the wounds.

This pavilion will be a building , which, after it is born will grow , along with its visitors and die,once its purpose is fulfilled.