Venice: Island of San Giorgio
Maggiore – Angola Pavilion. Beyond Entropy Angola is the first Pavilion of the
Republic of Angola at the Venice Biennale Architecture exhibition. Rather than
presenting a series of projects taking place in Angola, the pavilion is a real
scale prototype of the proposal: it shows the very possibility of what the
peri-urban areas of Luanda could become.
Angola – Beyond Entropy Angola. Beyond Entropy is an architectural agency
that uses the concept of energy as a poetic instrument for understanding,
conceiving and producing new forms of architecture beyond the rhetoric of
sustainability. Energy cannot be reduced
sole to a technical issue; it is a mode of transformation that informs the
concept of space.
Angola – Beyond Entropy Angola.
The pavilion is articulated in two types of space: the voids of the
footprints of buildings and the common ground in between. The voids located at the entry points of the
pavilion, are space occupied by shelters of Cazenga. The interstitial space, planted with Arundo
donax, is the common ground in between the voids. The common ground performs both as a public
space and as energetic ground.
Beyond Entropy Angola - Beyond
Entropy Ltd
Commissioner:
Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Angola. Curators:
Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Paula Nascimiento.