HOLOGRA-MAA

Melike Altınışık Architects exhibited ‘HOLOGRA-MAA’ in the fifth edition of the European Cultural Center’s (ECC) extensive biennial architecture exhibition with the title ‘TIME SPACE EXISTENCE. The Exhibition had opened in parallel with Biennale Architettura on May 22nd, 2021, and it continued six months until November 21st, 2021 at Palazzo Bembo in Venice.

European Cultural Center’s (ECC) ‘Time- Space – Existence’ exhibition is known for stimulating an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge by including different group of participants that have a very significant role in shaping the future of our lives such as architects, universities, legendary masters, emerging studios, established global practices, designers, artists, photographers, developers, engineering companies.

This year, ECC is hosting Zurich - Block Research Group (BRG) and Zaha Hadid Architects - Computation and Design Group (ZHCODE) with incremental3D and Holcim, Form4 Architecture, Lund University, Gherardi Studio, NANO Architecture, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, LOD, TU Darmstadt, TU Delft, ATP Architects and Engineers, TETRO Arquitetura, LOVE Architecture and Urbanism, Christoph Hesse Architects, David Jacobson, Maison de l’Architecture de Genève (MA) with G8A Architecture & Urban Planning, Singapore ETH Centre Future Cities Laboratory, - ETH Zurich, Digital Building Technologies and many other teams alongside Melike Altınışık Architects-MAA.

In the exhibition that is announced to open on 22 May 2021 the visitors have been seeing the time, space and existence stories of MAA’s futuristic 369-meter-high Istanbul TV & Radio Tower in Istanbul and the first pioneering Robot and AI Museum in Seoul, South Korea as well as exploring conceptual video and sound installation creating holographic spaces inside glass pyramids with “Hologra-MAA”. In addition, the exhibition includes ‘fine print’ photographs, project models designed with 3D printing technique, and two wall arts titled "Europe" and "Asia" that get their names from the design of The Tower.