Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Slovenian architects Aljo?a Dekleva and Tina Gregoric? have built a wooden library inside their national Biennale pavilion, and invited industry figures including Tatiana Bilbao, Konstantin Grcic and Alice Rawsthorn to fill it with books (+ slideshow).

The Dekleva Gregoric? Architects founders sought to create a hub of knowledge on home design. To achieve this, they developed a bespoke wooden library that not only accommodates books, but also creates a welcoming cocoon for occupants.

Entitled Home at Arsenale, the structure wraps around its space, integrating display areas, shelves and seating. Visitors are invited to clamber up onto its surfaces and leaf through a selection of titles.

The collection on show includes approximately 300 books, selected by a range of architects, designers, critics and artists from around the world, but all focussed on ideas about the home.
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Contributors include Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao, Sergison Bates co-founder Stephen Bates, Chilean studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen, industrial designer Konstantin Grcic, New York Times critic Alice Rawsthorn, Spanish architect Juan Herreros and Norwegian office TYIN Tegnestue.

"The notion of home requires readdressing," explained Dekleva and Gregoric?, whose Ljubljana-based studio has completed projects including a stone and concrete cottage and a ...