Cork is a material of choice for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, an event which Corticeira Amorim will be joining for the second consecutive time. The many properties of cork will be highlighted in "Future Perfect", one of the main Close, Closer Exhibitions that will be open for visitors from September 12 to December 15, 2013 at the Electricity Museum in Lisbon.
The exhibition "Future Perfect", curated by architect Liam Young, will show the results of a collective research on spaces, machines, cultures and narratives of a future city - an imaginary urbanism, the landscapes that surround it and the stories it contains.
The fictional future city will be shown at the Electricity Museum on a terrain clad in Amorim cork simulating a forest land with elevations and an access tunnel. The terrain area is fully covered with expanded insulation cork board and composite cork, which were selected for its sustainability and performance attributes.
According to Liam Young, Curator of the exhibition "Perfect Future", "The exhibition is designed as fragment of the future city landscape. Its central element for connecting and framing the works is a vast, spectacular faceted terrain clad entirely in Amorim cork. The texture of the cork is soft to their touch. Unlike other materials, the cork ground is a processed form of nature. It allows to conjure a radically different atmosphere and territory that absorbs the sounds of the forests and insulates against the cold. Cork was chosen to allow the visitor to imagine the terrain was grown in that place rather than engineered and constructed."
Cork has undoubtedly an important role to play in the construction industry in the future. Therefore, the partnership established with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale presents itself as an excellent opportunity to disseminate, promote and acknowledge cork's sustainable construction solutions.
Carlos de Jesus, Amorim's Head of Marketing and Communication, stresses the analogy between the widespread use of cork and the theme of the exhibition Future Perfect: "Natural cork is a material for the future, highly valued for its numerous properties and unparalleled sustainability. With Corticeira Amorim's involvement in the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, our company aims to reinforce the idea that cork should not be dissociated from reinventing the future of the construction industry and architecture."
The 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale will continue pointing to alternative ways of thinking about architecture, responding to the changing economic and social climate where traditional construction methods are being revolutionised and innovation thrives.
