Senza titolo

Senza titolo (9,52 x 7,20 x h 1.35 m)
by RUDY RICCIOTTI
with Lamoureux Ricciotti and Marco Arioldi
with GALERIE ENRICO NAVARRA, LAFARGE e BONNA SABLA

Concept
Senza Titolo is a ready-made installation without spectacular gestures or self-referential boast that represents part of the work done by Rudy Ricciotti’s studio: this is a portion of a villa roofing. This first exhibition to the general public of a project secretly carried out is a sort of bet on the future; this construction is just the beginning of a series of potential brand new and amazing architectural structures. The roofing of Villa Navarra which is situated near St Tropez consists of a sequence of ultra-performing fibre concrete modules (Ductal® by Lafarge). It is 40 metre long and only 3 cm thick in its final part with a 7.80 metre projection.
This material which is exceptionally dense, not porous and self-cicatrising is already used in the construction of nuclear power plants and enables both architects and engineers to “dance with the devil”. This villa is like a horizontal block framing the surrounding landscape and its roofing - a raw sheet which is not waterproof – is very light. A world preview. Being at the heart of minimal aesthetics also means consuming the smallest quality of energy and materials, while increasing the final technical performance. Here we are far from the IT virtuosity of the new standardised architecture. Here we talk about construction and industry to the service of disappearance and the transformation of reality. This is what Rudy Ricciotti intended to represent by placing this piece of concrete on the ground as simply as possible.

Project
3 BFUP modules (size: 9.19 x 2.35 x 0.73 m) fixed on 12 concrete blocks (N° 6: 1.2 x 1.2 x 0.6 m – N°6: 1.2 x 1.0 x 0.6 m). Installation total height: 1.35 m. Total surface area: 9.19 x 7.20 m. Lighting: from above, 1 spot situated on the axis on the gallery level in the mezzanine. Position: in front of the main entrance, the blocks behind the garden hedge and the three modules aligned in a projecting position right above.

Lafarge
The Lafarge Group has been working for years on the research of new materials and industrial processes sensitive to environmental friendly questions. Today the Group employs 83,000 people in 75 countries and is very well positioned in each of its operations: Cement, Granulates and Concrete, Roofing and Plastering. After over ten years in research, Lafarge has developed and patented an ultra performing fibre concrete known as Ductal®, which is incredibly resistant both in terms of tensile strength and compressive strength, despite a significant decrease in the quantity of material used, and is extraordinarily ductile. Lafarge has supplied the grey black-coloured Ductal® which was necessary to build the modules of the installation.

Galerie Enrico Navarra
Villa Navarra stemmed from the desire of art gallery expert and art collector Enrico Navarra to have a place to use both as home and exhibiting area. Once it is finished, Villa Navarra will be a villa that the general public is not entitled to access, but that you can exclusively visit via the Internet: «an abstract place whose vocation is that of becoming an enigma».

Bonna Sabla (Construction)
Bonna Sabla is the most important French company in manufacturing pre-fabricated concrete pieces. Thanks to its century-old experience and solid industrial and sales network, Bonna Sabla works in every single sector of territorial design for important customers, both public and private.