Stand Up for the Seas, is an installation by Rozana Montiel Estudio de Arquitectura for the exhibition Terre, Land in Sight by la Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in the heart of the 2nd Edition of the Biennale d’Architecture et du Paysage d’Ile-de-France (Bap, 2022) in Versailles.
To address the theme of this Biennale we built, creatively and with few elements an installation that would voice our thoughts towards the pollution of seas.
What can we do with tons of fishing gear disposed in the ocean? How can we generate a circular economy and transform waste into a new material?
The installation is made of recycled materials (steel, nets & floor), which invites us to walk inside a seine fishing net to experience what it feels to get caught.
More and more, waste needs to be re-signified into a resource. We transformed the disgarded fishing nets into a new building material: a floor.
Let’s not be caught by the nets but caught in the act of a better cycle.