Parque Potemkin

Potemkin es un parque para la Meditación Pos Industrial realizado por los arquitectos finlandeses Casagrande & Rintala en 2003. El parque, realizado en acero se sitúa sobre un vertedero ilegal de basura junto al río Kamagawa en la aldea Kuramata, provincia de Nijgata, Japón.

Potemkin se erige como un templo post-industrial, una Acrópolis para volver a pensar en la conexión entre el hombre moderno y la naturaleza. Se trata de un depósito de chatarra cultivada situado entre los antiguos campos de arroz y el río, con un eje en dirección al templo sintoísta.

Ficha técnica

• Autor: Casagrande y Rintala, Finlandia
• Organizador: Echigo-Tsumari Trienal de Arte Contemporáneo 2003, comisario Sakura Iso
• Situación: villa Kuramata junto al río Kamagawa, Echigo-Tsumari, Japón
• Dimensiones: 130 m largo, 5 – 15 m ancho, 5 m alto
• Materiales: acero Kawasaki (una pulgada de espesor), hormigón reciclado, asfalto reciclado, vidrio reciclado, cerámica recicladacantos rodados, grava blanca, roble
• Equipo: Marco Casagrande, Sami Rintala, Edmundo Colon, Chris Constantin, Philippe Gelard, Leslie Cofresi, Marty Ross, Janne Saario, Jan-Arild Sannes, George Lovett, Dean Carman, Joakim Skajaa, Sonny Madonaldo
• Fotografías: Dean Carman

Descripción

El diseño del parque se dibujó en el sitio a escala 1:1 en la nieve, marcando las líneas a pie con raquetas de nieve y construido cuando la nieve se derritió. En la Región de Echigo-Tsumari la altura de la nieve puede alcanzar los 3 metros.

The Potemkin is an artistically articulated collage of recycled urban and industrial waste, an industrial ruin for post-industrial meditation. As one enters the park the one inch thick steel walls are on the ground level, but while proceeding further the ground is descending, while the walls keep levelled and thus become 5 metes high. The wall system is framing a set of old oak trees and a series of outdoor and indoor spaces, smaller temples and courtyards with the final focus on the river down in the valley. Kamagawa River, where one may fish an ayu-fish, grill it and eat it up in Potemkin and go home.

The steel temple Potemkin is spiritually connected to the old Shinto temple on the other side of the rice fields. The post industrial meditation park is blessed by the Shinto priest and the 120 Kuramata villagers are continuing now their 400 -year old tradition of every night circular dance in Potemkin. A community ritual memorizing a heroic act from the feudal times. All the village can sit on the small oak bench auditorium of the park.

The rice farming village of Kuramata is dying. The younger generations have moved to Nijgata, Tokyo and other cities and the traditions of hundreds of years are about to disappear very rapidly; traditions that are based on a harmonious co-existence between the man and nature - human nature as part of nature. Potemkin celebrates Local Knowledge and by providing an industrial ruin it is providing hope. Urban visitors are often sleeping in Potemkin and claim that they have slept good.

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Enlaces externos

• Casagrande Laboratory
• Casagrande's Work Chronology
• EGGO
• Architizer
• POTEMKIN - Park for Post Industrial Meditation by Casagrande & Rintala Landezine, 2010