Norwegian architecture studio Helen & Hard has built a 1:1 cross-section of a co-housing project made from spruce wood in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Commissioned by the National Museum of Norway, the exhibition is named What We Share and demonstrates how architects can design and build communities based on participation and sharing .
Helen & Hard hopes it will also demonstrate how co-living can be used to help tackle various environmental issues, increase residential security and combat loneliness.
Helen & Hard has curated the Nordic Pavilion Within the theme of the biennale, How will we live together? , we wanted to emphasise the main environmental and social challenges we face today, such as the increasing loneliness and segregation in our society and the negative impact of the building industry in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, said the studio s founders Siv Helene Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf.
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The Nordic Pavilion at the 17th International ArchitectureExhibition of the Venice Biennale will be transformed into an experimental cohousing project by architects Helen & Hard, supported by a curatorial team from the National Museum of Norway. Responding to the theme of
How will we live together? the intervention “
will present a framework for designing and building communities based on participation and sharing”.
The Nordic Pavilion in Venice, co‑owned by Sweden, Finland, and Norway, will put in place a model for cohousing. In 2021, the National Museum of Norway will be in charge of realizing the exhibition. Entitled
What we share, the intervention at the 2021 Venice Biennale was designed by Norwegian architects Helen & Hard, a practice founded in Stavanger by Norwegian architect Siv Helene Stangeland and Austrian architect Reinhard Kropf. Working in collaboration with residents of their cohousing project Vindmøllebakken in Stavanger, Norway, the architects were