Dirty Twin
Dirty Twin is a research project that explores the entanglement of architecture with natural systems. It reveals how architecture and cultural infrastructures become a geological force through extraction and resource economies. Through speculative design and worldbuilding, the exhibition unfolds as a spatial and visual essay that reclaims architectural thinking as a tool for future imagination.
Urban representations should get the dirt back. Against dominant forms of visualization that flatten environments into optimized systems, Dirty Twinproposes another approach. The video essay reframes urban digital twins as contextually grounded artistic experiences that reveal ecological, cultural, and historical dimensions of cities.
Set in Salzburg, the project examines theatre infrastructures as an inhabited interface between city and mountain. The installation, Garden of Entanglement, brings geological samples from the site into space through 3D scanning and printing. Bearing marks of architectural intervention—arches, gates, colonnades, and etched surfaces—these objects appear as future fossils that connect digital representation with the material reality of the mountain.
Together, the work proposes an alternative way of sensing urban environments. It invites reflection on the city not as a fixed or optimized system, but as a living interface shaped by cultural rituals and ecological entanglements. The exhibition opens a space for debate on architecture as part of broader geological, technological, social, and planetary processes, and asks a further question: How dirty can architecture get, and how can design be rethought through reciprocity and coexistence?
* Dirty Twin is the installation format of the research project `Merging Visions`. The work has been developed within the withing the S+T+Arts Ec(h)o Residency and won Content Vienna 2025, Production award by Vienna Business Agency.
08.05.2026 - 05.06.2026 at frediana.space
VERNISSAGE
08.05.2026 - 19:00
Gußriegelstraße 9
1100 Vienna
DIRTY APERITIVO | OPEN STUDIO ARCHITEKTURTAGE 26
28.05.2026 - 19:00
Gußriegelstraße 9
1100 Vienna