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Nordic Pavilion to Be Transformed into an Experimental Co-Housing Project for the 2021 Venice Biennale

Copy 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

Woodnest Cabin / Helen & Hard

© Sindre Ellingsen There were several challenging aspects of this small project. The most challenging part was the premise we set ourselves. Being able to create a complete cabin only supported by one quite narrow tree, without additional columns or using several trees. Secondly how to create a climatized room around a growing, living tree. Also, a rather unusual building application, governmental approval, and HVAC solutions were challenging. © Sindre Ellingsen The cabin is constructed around a steel pipe, cut in halves, and then attached together again around the tree with 4 penetrating bolts. This became a rigid backbone to build the rest of the cabin from. We use the bridge and two steel wires to fix the tree horizontally so that all the weight only goes vertically down the trunk and no excentric loads. Around the backbone, space is constructed by double plywood ribs in a radial shape which defines the enclosed space.

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