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Tour the highlights of the 2021 Venice architecture biennale
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Inside the Spanish pavilion. (Giulia Marchi/Bloomberg) For the past 40 years, the Venice Biennale of Architecture has produced a mixture of futuristic design, compelling propositions for environmental and technological innovations, and a healthy dose of inscrutable theoretical technobabble.
This year s Biennale, which was supposed to take place last year but was delayed by of the COVID-19 pandemic, is titled, presciently, How Will We Live Together? It includes submissions from 61 countries that are primarily shown in national pavilions in the city s Giardini, a park on the southern side of Venice s Castello district.
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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