Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Venice – Giardini: La Biennale di Venezia - #16 International Architecture Exhibition – The Awards - Golden Lion – Best Pavilion



The Awards - Biennale Architecture
Golden Lion – Best Pavilion - Switzerland
Svizzera 240:House Tour
The Golden Lion for Best National Participation to Switzerland for a compelling architectural installation that is at once enjoyable while tackling the critical issues of scale in domestic space. Commissioners: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia: Marianne Burki, Sandi Paucic, Rachele Giudici Legittimo
Exhibitors: Alessandro Bosshard, Li Tavor, Matthew van der Ploeg, Ani Vihervaara

 Golden Lion – Best Pavilion - Switzerland
Svizzera 240:House Tour
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Golden Lion – Best Pavilion - Switzerland
Svizzera 240:House Tour
The project confronts the quintessentially Swiss theme of residential architecture, or Wohnungsbau, with a fresh approach that raises new questions. The Pavilion has been turned into an apartment and invites visitors to a house tour; focusing their attention on a building devoid of furniture and on its interior spaces, built to different scales and united to form a labyrinthine sequence of perspectives.

 
Golden Lion – Best Pavilion - Switzerland
Svizzera 240:House Tour


Golden Lion – Best Pavilion - Switzerland
Svizzera 240:House Tour
The architects of Svizzera 240 think the paradoxical presence of an unfurnished interior signifies a challenge to the tradition of inconspicuousness of the space itself and hints at an alternative architectural sensibility that will reinterpret the white wall as the intimate place of contact between architecture and society.

Photograph by Andrea Avezzu - courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

The Awards - Biennale Architecture
Golden Lion – Best Pavilion – Switzerland
The Switzerland Pavilion team received the Golden Lion from the president of La Biennale di Venezia, Paolo Baratta
text courtesy - www.venezianews.it   




 
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