Biennale is back
Written by Matej Gašperič
Architect
After skipping a year, The Architecture Biennale in Venice is back…
…and with it, I am finally back to Venice as well, this time with my Alenka and Žan.
Spanish pavilion
Spanish pavilion proved to be one of the most photogenic ones at this year Venice Architecture Biennale.
The opportunity finally arose this fall and I finally hit the road accompanied with my Alenka and Živa. And what a rewarding trip that proved to be.
Danish pavilion
If one want to know how to create a good pavilion on Venice Architectural Biennale, one does not need to go farther that Danish Pavilion.
No long texts, complicated schematics presented in such a creative way to make them unreadable or far fetched metaphors.
They utilised the simple formula:
Anticipate the visitors needs = thirst and tiredness.
Tend to it, by serving water and tee and provide a place for them to take a rest.
Combine that in a way, that you get your key messages across - ecology by gathering and reusing of the rainwater, the need for social interactions by one needing another to simply pour the tap water and designing all that in a typically simplistic Scandinavian way and…
...ta-daaa! you have nailed it.
Japanese pavilion 1
As usually, Japan didn’t disappoint as well.
The concept of their exhibit kind of follows the same form year after year but - hey! - why changing the winning formula.
This year they nicely presented the life cycle of the house.
One could never believe how many hand made pieces a house consists.
Japanese pavilion 2
While westerns might put all kind of warning sings like “Uneven road!” “Mind the step”,… or fence it out, the Japanese are simply counting on you and your awareness, to take care while walking through their Venice Pavilion.
The one that seeks the perfect safety can as well sit down and cease to exist all together since there is no such thing.
Nevertheless our society tends to forget that fact or is consciously trying to turn a blind eye on it.
