TAKK fills MAXXI in rome with gardens, rest spaces, and rituals of living together

A Zaha Hadid-designed museum entrance hall is transformed into a multispecies landscape through con-vivere by TAKK. The installation functions as an environmental condition that frames ecology as relational and bodily. Circular forms replace rigid geometries, and greenhouse luminaires nourish both vegetation and human bodies. Aromatic species diffuse scents through spaces designed for slowness and attention. Six mobile installations invite visitors to rest, work, gather, meditate, and eat together among plants, scents, water, and artificial light. A former jacuzzi becomes The Fountain, a shallow communal basin with tiered seating and moving water sound. The Collective Sofa forms a six-meter-wide circular area for lying down, reading, or sleeping beneath a suspended aromatic garden, with visitors instructed to remove their shoes.

"With con-vivere, the Barcelona- and New York-based studio TAKK transforms the Roman institution's entrance hall into a landscape where architecture becomes an instrument for coexistence. Presented as the second chapter of ENTRATE, the long-term program curated by Martina Muzi for MAXXI's Architecture and Design Department, the installation acts like an environmental condition. TAKK's con-vivere frames ecology as something relational and bodily and proposes a spatial strategy grounded in care, reciprocity, and interdependence."

"Circular forms replace rigid geometries, greenhouse luminaires nourish vegetation and human bodies and aromatic species diffuse scents through spaces designed for slowness and attention. Founded by architects Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño, TAKK has long explored how ecological systems can reshape the politics of space. Here, that research materializes through six mobile installations that invite visitors to rest, work, gather, meditate, and eat together among plants, scents, water, and artificial light."

"The Fountain, a former jacuzzi reimagined as a shallow communal basin, centers the installation, a spot where visitors gather around water as both a social and ecological agent. Tiered seating wraps around the structure, embracing pause while the sound of moving water cuts through the vast concrete hall of the museum. Nearby, The Collective Sofa stretches into a six-meter-wide circular landscape for lying down, reading, or sleeping beneath a suspended garden of aromatic plants."

"Visitors are instructed to remove their shoe"

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