"With today’s mounting environmental challenges, we have the responsibility to restore the balance between the built and natural environment," said Eero Lundén, and adds "Architecture as our most fundamental technology needs to be reinvented and, as architects, we must consider who or what we are building for. What is the worldview behind the buildings we create?”
And he adds "This is the epoch of the Anthropocene. Though the Anthropocene may appear to mark the moment humans have come to overpower nature, it is also an opportunity to rethink the most basic relationship between our buildings and ecology. Architecture should be considered a tool for redefining the complete cycle of building, from its most basic components to its operating systems."
More about Nordic pavilion, designed by Sverre Fehn in 1962, exploring, the relationship between nature and the built environment, here.
The installation, featuring multiple cellular balloons filled with air and water, responds to this year’s theme of Freespace, with Another Generosity, showing that how new approaches to architecture can help shape a world that supports the symbiotic coexistence of both. The Pavilion seeks to create a spatial experience which heightens our awareness of our surroundings.
Aiming to foster a dialogue, debate and criticism through these cellular structures, it helps reveal new ways that we can shape our world with another generosity.
The project is commissioned jointly by the directors of three museums: Juulia Kauste from the Museum of Finnish Architecture, who is taking the lead this year; Nina Berre from the Norwegian National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and Kieran Long from ArkDes, the Swedish National Centre for Architecture and Design.
