Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Chilean architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen have built a maze-like pavilion in the Venice Giardini, made up of 10 overlapping cylinders (+ slideshow).

Constructed for this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, the Vara Pavilion comprises 10 teal-coloured volumes that are all different sizes. Each touches or overlaps at least one other, creating a complex network of enclosed open-air spaces.

The two Pezo von Ellrichshausen founders described the result as "series of exteriors within other exteriors", intended to provide a sensory experience for its visitors.

"It's simultaneously very conceptual and intellectual, and at the same time its sensual and physical," Mauricio Pezo told Dezeen during a tour of the building, which opened to the public at the weekend.
"You try to make sense out of the things you see, but at the same time you are feeling and smelling, having an experience you cannot avoid," he explained.

The pavilion forms a continuation of the duo's conceptual Infinite Motive project, which imagined a megastructure of 100 overlapping circular enclosures.

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Here, the size of each cylinder is different. According to Pezo, the unit for each radius is a reference to the varying dimensions of a vara ? a notoriously imprecise rod used as a measuring tool to trace out ci...