RE-SET. Dutch Pavilion by Petra Blaisse

Today is opening to public "La Biennale di Venezia" and nothing better to start with a brilliant proposal. A weeks ago, we showed the first images about the Dutch Pavilion project by Petra Blaisse to La Biennale di Venezia. Now, courtesy of Inside-Outside, the first images and video about the pavilion. To be honest, look very well. Hat tip, to Petra and team!

Re-set, New wings for architecture. Photography © Rob 't Hart. Courtesy of Inside-Outside.

Below you can watch the video registration of the Dutch Pavilion that was made by Su Tomesen.

Although the images are still a bit mysterious, because yet they do not want to reveal the design yet, her ideas are bright, ideas about architecture itself, so that during the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, a single visit to the Dutch pavilion will not be enough.

Anyone who wants to experience the full potential of an empty building will return. Hat tip to Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse!!Perhaps more than once. Every five minutes the situation in the pavilion will be totally different, and anyone who stays for a while will witness a visually astounding transformation. With Re-set, new wings for architecture, Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse demonstrates that architecture possesses the power to start anew. The exhibition is being curated by Ole Bouman, Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI).

More information here: THE PROJECT AND FIRST IDEAS: RE-SET. New wings for architecture. Petra Blaisse in Venice.

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Collage Re-set, new wings for architecture. Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse, 2012

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PETRA BLAISSE

Petra Blaisse (London 1955), more popularly known in the world of architecture, for her colaboration in some of the most brilliant projects by Rem Koolhaas, as the carpets and finishes for the Seattle Central Library (2000-2004) or finishes and curtains for the Casa da Música in Porto (1999-2005) and acoustic walls, started her career at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the Department of Applied Arts. It was there that Blaisse first collaborated with Koolhaas. From 1987, she worked as freelance designer and won distinction for her installations of architectural work, in which the exhibited work was challenged more than displayed. Gradually her focus shifted to the use of textiles, light and finishes in interior space and, at the same time, to the design of gardens and landscapes.

In 1991, she founded Inside Outside. Since 1999 Blaisse invited specialist of various disciplines to work with her and currently the team consists of about ten people of different nationalities. Inside Outside works globally on projects of increasing technical sophistication and scale. Throughout the years, Inside Outside has collaborated with various architects and designers. Blaisse has lectured and taught extensively in Europe, Asia and the United States.

In the past years, the opening of a number of public and private buildings in which Inside Outside implemented interior and landscape interventions brought the work of Blaisse’s studio to the attention of a broader public. Examples are the restoration project for the Hackney Empire Theatre in London (all curtains, 2000-2005), the gardens, carpets and finishes for the Seattle Central Library (2000-2004), finishes and curtains for the Casa da Música in Porto (1999-2005) and acoustic walls and curtains for the Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart.

For landscape design, the studio presently works, together with OMA Hong Kong and Rotterdam, on the landscape masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong and on public gardens (Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Qatar Foundation Headquarters and Education City Library) and on master plans for new urban development areas in Ghadames and Sebha, Libya.

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