Venice Biennale - freespace - A Living Architecture

Venice Biennale - freespace

28/5/2018

Focuses on the question of free space, the free space that can be generated when a project is inspired by generosity. Architectural thinking applied to the space in which we live. Freespace describes the generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the core of architecture’s agenda, focusing on the quality if space itself. Ability to address the unspoken wishes of strangers. Encourages reviewing ways of thinking, new ways of seeing the world, of inventing solutions where architecture provides well-being and dignity of each citizen. Freespaces encompasses freedom to imagine the free space of time, memory, binding past, present and future together, building on inherited cultural layers, weaving the archaic with the contemporary.

Australia - repair

Since we have been making buildings and cities in Australia it has mostly been to separate us from our position as human beings in the natural environment. The Australian Pavilion therefore looks at the pattern of Site Repair.

Study of Finnish public libraries and library architecture. As constantly rejuvenating hubs of social vitality and their role as public investments in a free democratic society.

Indonesia – The poetics of emptiness

Social media connects people but at the same time unplugs them from the actual experience of everyday life. This sort of paradox becomes the spectre haunting human life. In architectural practices, the shifting from the analogue design to towards the total digital process resonates the paradox. These complexities create a new set of questions; does technology work only as our apparatus to pursue our design endeavour? Or has our role as the protagonist in the design process been taken over and dictated by technology?

In response to this the pavilion aims to employ spatial etiology in vernacular architecture in Indonesia. Which focuses on the void as the crux of their spatial organisation. Emptiness is a quality evoking void. A dialogue between human senses and the void produces a particular quality of space called Sunyata or emptiness.

Nordic Pavilion - Reuse, reduce, recycle, rebeauty

25 1:1 scale prototypes of material concepts for walls and facades to show how waste can be transformed into high quality architecture design. Novel architectural, technological and commercial potential result from the resource preserving strategies.

Portuguese Pavilion - Public Without Rhetoric

Invites us to reflect on the role of architecture in contemporary societies and allows us to understand the intention of the architect within the context of the larger work that is the city. Public construction works are inserted in their setting, take ground and establish themselves as an integral part of place. The passage of time provides new forms of spatiality and renewed relationship possibilities with the community that inhabits them.

Irish Pavilion - Free Market

Free Market’ celebrates small town market places. When it comes to improving the quality of market squares in Irish towns Rosie Webb states, “it is worthwhile looking to the past to provide direction for how we might accommodate change for the future.”

Towns were often physically constructed around market places, which, historically were the economic and social hubs, however many have seen their function diminished. ‘Free Market’ highlights three interconnected ways to provoke change: changes in policy, in behaviour and in how design happens. “Rather than asking how do we fix towns, we ask what can we learn from towns?”