ELSE- Zhifei Xu, Zimo Zhang
“Trace of Land”
China, France
Place: La Crusc
Imagine a large, round hay bale traversing the slopes of Armentara, climbing, descending, leaping, and leaving a trail of dry grass behind. Well, the installation you see here brings that imaginary vision to life. Freed from its compressed form, the hay bale creates a path that, thanks to a rebar structure commonly used in construction, rises into a pergola, which also becomes a shelter for passersby. From a poetic vision, the installation transforms into landscape architecture, dialoguing with the nearby *tablà*, the wooden barns typical of the Ladin valleys. ELSE is, in fact, a duo of architects. They use imagination to speak about the origins of their discipline, shelter, whose construction, like haymaking, is linked to this year’s theme: manual labor, the development of technique, and materials.
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Imaginede na bala de fëgn, grana y torona, che brodora sön i pra de Armentara, söpert, jöpert, tiran salc y lascian zoruch na stricora de fëgn. Avisa chësta vijiun imaginara é ci che l’istalaziun ó rapresenté. Lëdia da süa forma drucada adöm, cheriëia la bala de fëgn n percurs, dilan a na strotöra fata cun fers da petun che vëgn normalmënter adorá tla costruziun, che s’alza sö te na pergola che devënta ince n’assosta por che che passa chiló. Da vijiun poetica, devënta l’istalaziun architetöra dla contrada che dialoghëia cun i tablá dlungia, les costruziuns de lëgn tipiches dles valades ladines. ELSE é belavisa n duo de architëc. Ëi adora la fantasia por cunté dl scomenciamënt de süa disciplina, l’assosta, costruziun, che deboriada cun le fá fëgn, é liada ala tematica de chësc ann, plü avisa le laur manual, le svilup dla tecnica y di materiai.
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Immaginate una balla di fieno, di quelle grandi e rotonde, che percorre i pendii dell’Armentara affrontando salite, discese, spiccando salti e lasciando dietro di sé una striscia di erba secca. Ecco, l’installazione che vedete rende reale la visione appena descritta. Libera dalla sua forma compressa, la balla di fieno crea un percorso che, grazie alla struttura di tondino in ferro comunemente usato in edilizia, si solleva in un pergolato che diventa anche riparo per chi passa di qui. Da visione poetica, l’installazione si fa architettura del paesaggio e dialoga con i vicini tablà, i capanni in legno tipici delle valli ladine. ELSE è, infatti, un duo di architetti. Essi usano la fantasia per parlare dei primordi della loro disciplina, il riparo, la cui costruzione è legata, così come la fienagione, alla tematica di quest’anno, cioè il lavoro manuale, lo sviluppo della tecnica e dei materiali.
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Stellen Sie sich einen großen, runden Heuballen vor, der die Hänge der Armentara hinauf- und hinab rollt, Sprünge macht und eine Spur aus trockenem Gras hinterlässt. Nun, die Installation, die Sie hier sehen, lässt diese imaginäre Vision Realität werden. Befreit aus seiner komprimierten Form, schafft der Heuballen einen Pfad, der sich dank einer im Bauwesen üblichen Eisenstangen Struktur zu einer Pergola erhebt, die auch als Unterschlupf für Vorbeikommende dient. Von einer poetischen Vision wandelt sich die Installation zu einer Landschaftsarchitektur und tritt in Dialog mit den benachbarten Tablà, den typischen Holzhütten der ladinischen Täler. ELSE ist tatsächlich ein Architektenduo. Sie nutzen ihre Fantasie, um über die Ursprünge ihrer Disziplin, des Schutzes, zu sprechen, dessen Bau, wie die Heuernte, mit dem diesjährigen Thema verbunden ist: Handarbeit, die Entwicklung von Technik und Materialien.
Location LA CRUSC.
Millennia ago, the Santa Croce plateau was probably a pagan place of worship. After all, as we also know for Putia meadows and Goma pass, the archaeological evidence shows that these areas have already been frequented for at least 5000 years, meaning, since the Neolithic period if not even earlier. Life in the mountains was difficult then and continued to be so for centuries to come. When, having switched from animism to monotheism, the first Christians in the area no longer erected altars or votive pyres, but built a shrine to ask for nature’s benevolence. Around the year 1010, they built a chapel in the meadows at the foot of Sas dla Crusc/ Sasso di Santa Croce. In the 15th century, a small church was built in place of the chapel, which at the end of the 17th century was deconsecrated by the then Austrian emperor and thus subject to decay. The valley inhabitants and some pilgrims restored the small church, saving it from ruin. In the middle of the 18th century, the little church was enlarged and provided with a bell tower. There are several legends surrounding it, one of which tells of Ottwin, Count of Lurn and Val Pusteria, who was guilty of heresy during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. After returning to his South Tyrolean homeland, overwhelmed by guilt for his sin, he decided to live as a hermit in a hut at the foot of the Sasso di Santa Croce rocks, spending his days seeking expiation. Ottwin’s legendary vicissitudes (you will find more about the myths in the in-depth studies) take us back to those of the many monks and saints (St Jerome among them) who lived far from civilisation and to the secular and real story of Jürgen König (met in Medalges’ description) and reminds us how the mountain is one of the best places for both personal and religious reflection and meditation. And how could it be otherwise when faced with beautiful landscapes and natural phenomena such as the alpenglow, which dyes most of the Dolomite peaks red, then turning to violet, and causing the Sasso di Santa Croce rock wall to be even more marvellous, glowing in the evening light.
Speaking of the verticality of the walls of this mountain, the legacy of Reinhold Messner, and his brother Günther, also passes through here. Indeed, on July 7, 1968, they climbed the inviolate Pillar of the Middle. The ascent involved climbing a section whose difficulty, at the time, had never been exceeded: VII+/VIII-. In one fell swoop the Messner brothers, with Reinhold as route leader, opened a new route (which for the next 10 years no one would be able to repeat) while also opening a new chapter in the history of mountaineering and sport climbing.
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https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifugio_Peder%C3%BC
https://parchi-naturali.provincia.bz.it/fanes-senes-braies/habitat-del-parco.asp
https://ambiente.provincia.bz.it/acqua/sorgenti-minerali.asp?news_action=4&news_article_id=547376
https://www.provincia.bz.it/natura-ambiente/natura-territorio/tutela/monumenti-naturali.asp
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Pederü Hut https://g.page/Pederue?share
Accessible by car-van
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Ed. 2021 - www.smach.it/vaz
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Millennia ago, the Santa Croce plateau was probably a pagan place of worship. After all, as we also know for Putia meadows and Goma pass, the archaeological evidence shows that these areas have already been frequented for at least 5000 years, meaning, since the Neolithic period if not even earlier. Life in the mountains was difficult then and continued to be so for centuries to come. When, having switched from animism to monotheism, the first Christians in the area no longer erected altars or votive pyres, but built a shrine to ask for nature’s benevolence. Around the year 1010, they built a chapel in the meadows at the foot of Sas dla Crusc/ Sasso di Santa Croce. In the 15th century, a small church was built in place of the chapel, which at the end of the 17th century was deconsecrated by the then Austrian emperor and thus subject to decay. The valley inhabitants and some pilgrims restored the small church, saving it from ruin. In the middle of the 18th century, the little church was enlarged and provided with a bell tower. There are several legends surrounding it, one of which tells of Ottwin, Count of Lurn and Val Pusteria, who was guilty of heresy during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. After returning to his South Tyrolean homeland, overwhelmed by guilt for his sin, he decided to live as a hermit in a hut at the foot of the Sasso di Santa Croce rocks, spending his days seeking expiation. Ottwin’s legendary vicissitudes (you will find more about the myths in the in-depth studies) take us back to those of the many monks and saints (St Jerome among them) who lived far from civilisation and to the secular and real story of Jürgen König (met in Medalges’ description) and reminds us how the mountain is one of the best places for both personal and religious reflection and meditation. And how could it be otherwise when faced with beautiful landscapes and natural phenomena such as the alpenglow, which dyes most of the Dolomite peaks red, then turning to violet, and causing the Sasso di Santa Croce rock wall to be even more marvellous, glowing in the evening light.
Speaking of the verticality of the walls of this mountain, the legacy of Reinhold Messner, and his brother Günther, also passes through here. Indeed, on July 7, 1968, they climbed the inviolate Pillar of the Middle. The ascent involved climbing a section whose difficulty, at the time, had never been exceeded: VII+/VIII-. In one fell swoop the Messner brothers, with Reinhold as route leader, opened a new route (which for the next 10 years no one would be able to repeat) while also opening a new chapter in the history of mountaineering and sport climbing.
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Millenni fa il pianoro di Santa Croce era probabilmente un luogo di culto pagano. Dopo tutto, come già abbiamo visto per i Prati del Putia, Goma, Rina, le evidenze archeologiche dimostrano come queste zone fossero già frequentate da almeno 5000 anni, cioè dal Neolitico se non da prima ancora. La vita in montagna era difficile allora e continuò a esserlo nei secoli a venire quando, passati dall’animismo al monoteismo, i primi cristiani della zona non innalzarono più altari o roghi votivi, ma costruirono un santuario per chiedere la benevolenza della natura. Intorno all’anno 1010 costruirono una cappella nei prati ai piedi del Sas dla Crusc/ Sasso di Santa Croce. Nel XV secolo al posto della cappella fu costruita una piccola chiesa che alla fine del XVII secolo fu sconsacrata dall’allora imperatore austriaco e quindi soggetta al decadimento. I valligiani e alcuni pellegrini ristrutturarono la chiesetta salvandola dalla rovina. A metà del XVIII secolo la chiesetta fu poi ampliata e dotata di un campanile. Attorno ad essa ci sono alcune leggende una delle quali narra di Ottwin, conte di Lurn e della Val Pusteria, che durante un pellegrinaggio in Terra Santa si macchiò di eresia. Dopo essere tornato nella patria altoatesina, sopraffatto dai sensi di colpa per il suo peccato, decise di vivere da eremita in una capanna ai piedi le rocce del Santa Croce trascorrendo le giornate alla ricerca dell’espiazione. Le vicende leggendarie (a proposito di miti negli approfondimenti ne trovate altri) di Ottwin, ci riportano a quelle dei molti monaci e santi (uno fra tutto San Girolamo) che vissero lontani dalla civiltà e alla storia laica e reale di Jürgen König (che incontrerete nella descrizione di Medalghes) e ci ricorda come la montagna sia uno dei luoghi migliori per la riflessione e la meditazione sia personale che religiosa. E come non potrebbe essere altrimenti davanti a paesaggi bellissimi e a fenomeni naturali come quelli dell’enrosadira che tinge di rosso, passando poi al viola, la maggior parte delle cime delle Dolomiti e che in questo luogo rende ancora più meravigliosa la parete del Sasso Croce. A proposito delle verticalità delle pareti di questa montagna, la fama di Reinhold Messner, e di suo fratello Gunther, passa anche da queste parti. Il 7 luglio 1968 scalarono infatti l’inviolato Pilastro di Mezzo. La salita comportò il superamento di un tratto la cui difficoltà che, all’epoca, non era mai stata superata: il VII+/VIII-. In un colpo solo i fratelli Messner, con Reinhold capocordata, aprirono una nuova via (che per i 10 anni successivi nessuno/a riuscià a ripetere) inaugurando anche un nuovo capitolo nella storia dell’arrampicata sportiva.
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Vor Jahrtausenden war die Hochebene von Heilig Kreuz wahrscheinlich ein heidnischer Kultplatz. Wie wir auch für Würzjoch, die Peitler Wiesen und den Goma Pass wissen, zeigen die archäologischen Funde, dass diese Gebiete bereits seit mindestens 5000 Jahren, also seit der Jungsteinzeit, wenn nicht sogar noch früher, frequentiert werden. Das Leben in den Bergen war damals, sowie in den folgenden Jahrhunderten, schwierig. Als die ersten Menschen in dieser Gegend vom Animismus zum christlichen Monotheismus übergingen, errichteten sie keine Altäre oder Scheiterhaufen mehr, sondern einen Schrein, um das Wohlwollen der Natur zu erbitten. Um das Jahr 1010 errichteten sie eine Kapelle auf den Wiesen am Fuße des Sas dla Crusc/ Kreuzkofel. Im 15. Jahrhundert wurde anstelle der Kapelle eine kleine Kirche errichtet, die Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts vom damaligen österreichischen Kaiser entweiht und somit dem Verfall ausgesetzt wurde. Die Talbewohner und einige Pilger restaurierten diese und bewahrten sie somit vor dem Verfall. Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts wurde die Kirche vergrößert und mit einem Glockenturm versehen. Um sie ranken sich mehrere Legenden, eine davon erzählt von Ottwin, Graf von Lurn und dem Pustertal, der sich während einer Pilgerreise ins Heilige Land der Ketzerei schuldig machte. Nach seiner Rückkehr in die Südtiroler Heimat beschloss er, von Schuldgefühlen überwältigt, als Einsiedler in einer Hütte am Fuße der Heilig Kreuz-Felsen zu leben und seine Tage auf der Suche nach Sühne zu verbringen. Ottwins sagenhaftes Schicksal (Details zu diesen Mythen können selbständig recherchiert werden) erinnert uns an die vielen Mönche und Heiligen (darunter der heilige Hieronymus), die fernab der Zivilisation lebten. Sie erinnert auch an die weltliche und reale Geschichte von Jürgen König (der in der Beschreibung von Medalghes vorkommt) und erinnert uns daran, dass der Berg einer der besten Orte für persönliche und religiöse Reflexion und Meditation ist. Und wie könnte es auch anderes in diesen wunderschönen Landschaften sein, wenn man Naturphänomenen wie dem Alpenglühen begegnet, welches die meisten Dolomitengipfel erst rot und dann violett färbt und die Felswand des Kreuzkofel im Abendlicht noch herrlicher erstrahlen lässt.
Wenn wir schon von der Vertikalität der Wände dieses Berges sprechen, so geht auch der Ruhm von Reinhold Messner und seinem Bruder Günther hier durch. Am 7. Juli 1968 bestiegen sie nämlich den unberührten Pilastro di Mezzo. Bei der Besteigung wurde ein Abschnitt überwunden, dessen Schwierigkeitsgrad damals noch nie übertroffen worden war: VII+/VIII-. Mit einem Schlag eröffneten die Messner-Brüder mit Reinhold als Routenführer eine neue Route (die in den nächsten 10 Jahren niemand mehr wiederholen konnte) und schlugen ein neues Kapitel in der Geschichte des Bergsteigens und des Sportkletterns auf.