MIO20.
OPEN
ARCHITECTURE

PRESENTATION

In 2014, the MIO project was born as part of the Quito Pan-American Architecture Biennial with the interest of going beyond the specialized academic field and nurturing the cultural scene, offering the filmmakers of various artistic disciplines interactions with iconic cases of Quito architecture.

Given the conditions generated by COVID-19, the BAQ has rethought its call by highlighting the new mechanisms of interaction and communication. For this issue we propose to extend the invitation at a disciplinary and territorial level. We summon creators and creators of art and architecture from anywhere in the world to participate in the discussion of the transformations that thinking and inhabiting architecture implies.

Winners
2020

Download the results of the
MIO20 Open architecture call.

The content of the winning projects will be announced at the BAQ2020 cultural event on Tuesday, November 10. Stay tuned.

Closed

Call

APPROPRIATION

ARTISTIC
INTERDISCIPLINE IN

DIGITAL FORMAT

The Biennial proposed as the central axis the transformation as an intrinsic essence of architecture. Thus, it seeks to question the vision of a static architecture that dispenses with memory and its ritual function. It is proposed for this call to understand architecture as a living archive. The etymological origins of the words transformation, memory and archive allow us to discuss these approaches in relation to this trade:

TRA
NS
FOR
M

From Latin
transformare
‘change one thing
into another’,
derived from formare
‘give form’.
From the
etymological family of form .

ME
MO
RY

From Latin
memory formed
from the adjective
memor (the one who remembers),
and the suffix -ia used
to create abstract
nouns, and which also
gave the verb memorare
(remember,
store in mind ).

AR
CHI
VE

From the Greek
arkhêion
proposes a place
of the public
documents.

The Biennial in its cultural axis proposes communicating vessels between these three concepts. On the one hand, memory and archives are physical and mental spaces that keep the traces that allow the establishment of paradigms of history. On the other hand, transformation, as a dynamic and infinite exercise. Architecture can be thought of under these three terms: as a living, contingent, constantly changing place that nevertheless has a fixed anchor, it appears intrinsic to its tradition and history. Consequently, architecture is a ritual of memory.

8WORKS

3. APPROACH

The Biennial proposes eight architectural works of the city of Quito as triggers to think about these concepts:

1. Antiguo Hospital San Juan de Dios

Museo de La Ciudad

XVI-XVII
Century

2. CASA DEL ALABADO

Museo de Arte
Precolombino

XVII
Century

3. Piscinas
del
Sena

1815

4. Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa

1951

5. Hotel
Quito

1960

6. Residencia Universitaria

1960

7. Palacio
Municipal

1975

8. Casa de La Cultura Ecuatoriana

1980

Thus, the MIO20, makes available to the participants a folder for each of the aforementioned works that contain different graphic and photographic files; as well as sketches and planimetry; a technical file and documents that help to the historical contextualization of the proposed works, for their appropriation, adaptation, intervention, manipulation and transformation that results in an unpublished work in digital format.

It is essential to use at least one of the materials in the folder corresponding to the selected work.