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Venice Architecture Biennale
2002
Venice Architecture Biennale
2002
The brief for the
eighth Venice Architecture Biennale was for a design
which would appeal not only to architects, but also to a wider public,
with a spatial organisation which maximized dramatic impact, whilst
maintaining legibility. The context for an exhibition
showing the work of around 100 architects - specifically in the form of
large-scale models and prototypes - was the Corderie in the
Arsenale, the building originally used for the manufacture of
rope for
the Venetian fleet.
The scheme created a sequence of monumental spaces 800m in extent,
achieving powerful effects by interposing simple, repeating forms
within the structure’s rich interior landscape.