A tower six metres high with a square base, white and grey marble stripes, water cascading on to a pond and a teetering sculpture of a man-like figure. A tower where grass grows on the roof, with a little window from which ivy tumbles down while a meadow climbs upwards: these are the elements characterising this project.

In some ways, it represents an aesthetic of vitality, where architecture interplays with natural elements, and this is what brings it closer to a human scale.

Aldo Cibic was born in Vicenza in 1955. In 1981, as a partner of Sottsass Associati, he was among the founders of Memphis. His “Microrealities” (2004) and “Rethinking Happiness” (2010) projects were presented at the Venice Architecture Biennial. Through Cibicworkshop, a multidisciplinary research centre, he focuses on the development of alternative and sustainable types of design with the aim of promoting local areas and defining a new cultural, emotional and environmental awareness of public spaces. Aldo Cibic teaches at the Milan Polytechnic University, IUAV in Venice and the Domus Academy; he is also an honorary professor at Tongji University in Shanghai

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Curated by Vincenzo Pava

Water, in being a fluid and luminous entity, helps valorise stone materials by enhancing their material-perceptive aspects. With the aim of creating a relationship between marble and water in architecture, Marmomac presents the Architetture per l’acqua exhibition. In keeping with this year’s theme concept – Water and Stone – world-famous architects teamed up with companies in the sector to create installations that experiment with innovative stone processing technologies.
The result is a scenic exhibition comprising stone towers overlooking a large pond. In tackling the topic of cladding façades, marbles and natural stones of different origins were selected and processed by partner companies with advanced solutions to enhance their high-level technical skills, thereby allowing the architects to create works of impressive structural and design complexity in accordance with new formal languages.