Japanese Pavilion, 11th Biennale in Venice.
Almost nothing - only mellow pencil lines are covering the pavilion’s interior walls. It’s the Japanese contribution of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in the Gardini, in Venice, by Junya Ishigami: sectional drawings of inhabited greenhouse structures.
Japanese Pavilion, 11th Biennale in Venice.
The pavilion’s exterior is surrounded by 1:1 buildings of greenhouses, an attempt of realizing an idea of the pencil drawings. "These buildings, which are designed with precise structural calculations so they are just barely able to stand, suggest the future possibilities of architecture and therefore pose the basic question: What is architecture? They are extremely delicate greenhouses with an ephemeral physical presence that blend into the environment." (source)
The pavilion’s exterior.
Are the built greenhouses as compelling as their pencil drawings?
Japanese Pavilion, 11th Biennale in Venice.