Venice (dpa) -. Which architect needs the world? No, the build luxury buildings, bank towers and museums in cities, so the gist of the Architecture Biennale in Venice. But such as Kunle Adeyemi, called NLE. He takes a Silver Lion at home as “the most promising young participants”.
With no winner was during the awards ceremony on Saturday in Venice so cheering as at home.
has Nigerian a floating triangular wooden house brought to Venice, he was the first in a slum district of Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, and realized now recreated in a water basin in the Arsenale grounds. He stuck inside the wall, the building instructions. Take:. Four people, ten days 15 tons of wood, 256 plastic barrels – ready is the school building with 220 square meters
Also, none of the other winners of the 15th Biennale, which will take place until 27 November is in high price segment operates or has a prominent name.
The Golden Lion for the best participants of the international collective exhibition was awarded to a firm of architects from Paraguay. Gabinete de Arquitectura is the group led by Solano Benitez. Your destination: the huge influx stay in the big cities. Their idea was to build houses on the land. Your way: use what is masse cheaply available. In Paraguay are the bricks and manpower.
But how do you get unskilled workers to properly substantiate? In Venice Benitez must show his colleagues from the world of Master coercion, how. The brought a visual example giant dome looks at least very stable.
That Spain was awarded the Golden Lion for the best pavilion, not only fit at first glance the picture. Because with the Countries Exhibition “Unfinished” is about the economic crisis and the consequences. In the entrance room photos show unfinished new buildings, renovations broken, sanded prestige projects. In the adjoining rooms, you watch what you can do everything Beautiful therefrom. Airy cultural centers, spectacular lofts or even a temporary roof for the poor
“We see unfinished buildings as an opportunity,” say the curators of the Spanish Pavilion , “A concise curated selection of emerging architects whose work shows how to overcome creativity and dedication material constraints,” says the jury.
Japan introduces young architects of tightness in their country “with poetry the compact “get at how the jury found. Peru shows how hundreds of schools could be built in remote areas in the Amazon jungle with the help of the “Plan Selva”.
The Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has compiled the international exhibition. For “Reporting from the Front” he has 88 projects from 37 countries selected – worth emulating ideas on how architecture and urban planning can improve the quality of life of people, particularly in poor countries.
“The task of architecture is to give the places where we live a form,” Aravena told Deutsche Presse-Agentur. “Greed and impatience, ambition and conservatism tend to produce a banal, mediocre and boring built environment. There have many battles to be won in order to improve their quality -. And therefore also the quality of life “
Overall, more than 60 countries participate in the exhibition, which every two years alternating with the arts Biennale takes place. Main venues are the gardens of Venice with its historic pavilion and the former shipyard. Who wants to see everything that needs daily. The Golden and Silver Lions help with the selection – and show the direction in which the journey should go.
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