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Potenziale 3
2021–2022 · exhibitionLiving with Trees and One Minute Architecture at aut. architektur und tirol, Innsbruck, 2021 to 2022
- year
- 2021–2022
- type
- exhibition
- status
- aut. architektur und tirol, Innsbruck, 14 October 2021 to 12 February 2022
- credit
- Rasa Navasaityte (Living with Trees) and Daniel Koehler (One Minute Architecture). Potenziale 3: Insights into Architectural Research, curated by Stefan Rutzinger and Thomas Feuerstein, aut. architektur und tirol, Innsbruck, 14 October 2021 to 12 February 2022. Installation photographs by Julian Hoeck.
- program
- Between the Parts, Large City Architecture
- where
- Innsbruck
- no.
- 024
Potenziale 3: Insights into Architectural Research was shown at aut. architektur und tirol in Innsbruck from 14 October 2021 to 12 February 2022, curated by Stefan Rutzinger and Thomas Feuerstein. The lab took part with two works. Rasa Navasaityte’s studio Living with Trees was shown as models and drawings of a time-active ecological infrastructure for student housing, the white tower and its plinths among them. Daniel Koehler’s One Minute Architecture ran as a video installation: the assembly simulation on a screen, with its white model of stacked slabs on a green table.
A large print was made for the exhibition, a drawing of a dense city fabric with green voids, and the model was photographed in daylight before the opening. Julian Hoeck photographed the installation; the two works are documented in their own entries, Living with Trees and One Minute Architecture.
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Model with daylight · photograph · 2021 
Potenziale 3 at aut. Innsbruck: the green table with its screen and the Living with Trees model · 2021 · photo Julian Hoeck 
Potenziale 3 at aut. Innsbruck, the installation shared with Living with Trees: room view · 2021 · photo Julian Hoeck 
One Minute Architecture: the model in daylight · photograph · 2021
1 / 4 · Model with daylight · photograph · 2021
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