Le L AM a tenu sa promesse pour l’édition 2017 de la nuit des musées:
l’art de l’architecture s’est vu honoré avec l’exposition de ce jeune architecte luxembourgeois travaillant à Londres chez Norman Foster. De nombreux visiteurs se sont émerveillés devant les dessins, maquettes et portfolios de Damien Assini. Ce jeune prodige a fait un travail de visionnaire dans lequel l’homme et la nature se retrouvent au centre des solutions urbanistiques et architecturales.
Pour ceux qui n’ont pas eu l’occasion de passer au Citymuseum voici quelques impressions:
‘The Re-imagination of the HS2’
The UK government claims that the proposed high- speed rail linking London with the Midlands will boost productivity and bridge Britain’s social divide. Through the social economic lenses of the Guardian newspaper, Damien Assini’s project speculates what the urban alternatives might have been and suggests a diverse lexicon for a new urban typology.
His proposal celebrates nature and becomes a catalyst for a green economy to revive a lost “Great” Britain. The hypothetical scenario aims to ask questions such as: How could the country function as a spatial and political entity now that Great Britain has voted out of the European Union? Can we speculate a different approach to an economic and social decline by repurposing the land and budget acquired for high- speed rail to suggest a different infrastructure project?
Damien Assini
