RETHINKING HAPPINESS

Last september I was in Venice, I was having a pizza during a storm sitting close to a canal under an umbrella, rethinking about happiness, smiling faces and beautiful places.

Venice is a delightful place, a wonderful maze of calle and canals all filled up with tourists.

“Last september I was in Venice, I was having a pizza during a storm sitting close to a canal under an umbrella, rethinking about happiness, smiling faces and beautiful places.”

It’s so easy getting lost in Venice that is better if you choose to deal with it and let it go, discovering every corner by surprise. But even Venice has its pattern, if you won’t to get lost you can always follow the crowd of tourists leading to Piazza San Marco.

Every year Venice hosts the Biennale, Art and Architecture, one at a year. This year was the turn of Architecture.

As you  know architects deal with beauty, utility and firmness that concur to the definition and the suggestion for happiness. Every two years The Biennale Gardens are filled with project that deal with this purpose. Vanguards, geniuses, pragmatistes, idealists all in challenge to introduce their own dreams about the definition of a constructed and proposed happiness.

Maybe happiness can solve problems, maybe solving problems helps to define happiness. Maybe Both things help.

Aldo Cibic proposes to Rethinking Happiness through the proposal of New realities for a changing lifestyles that starts from the point of “Doing unto others as you would have them doing unto you.”

“Maybe happiness can solve problems, maybe solving problems helps to define happiness. Maybe Both things help.”

Architecture is the background of the social activities, the scenery  in which the lifestyles of the users take shape and by which they can recognize themselves. The proposed scenography deals with sustainability, density and rural environments responding for the demands of a new concept of contemporary urbanity and, of course, it deals with Combi Pools.

It seems that nowadays the vocabulary of architecture extends itself to combi pools and skate plazas as an ibrid between a social aggregator and a sport facility, even the Neufert manual contains a section about skateparks design.

This means that skateboarding and rollerblading are no longer an issue in the architects way of thinking but a social resource and  we all owe an high five to Aldo and his partners in Milan.

“This means that skateboarding and rollerblading are no longer an issue in the architects way of thinking but a social resource and  we all owe an high five to Aldo and his partners in Milan.”

There’s one more interesting fact about Aldo Cibic, listening to the interview by Hans-Ulrich Obrist I discovered that he is a self-taught architect and designer. He starts working  with Ettore Sottsass in Milan and then he took part in the Memphis group.

High five !

Matteo Guidi