Flowing streams, footbridges, leaks and water pipes all lead visitors through the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in an exhibition that explores the circularity of water.
Architecture studio Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects and curator Marianne Krogh created the installation, titled Con-nect-ed-ness, using a cyclic rainwater system.
Top: the Danish Pavilion was designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects. Above: PVC pipes connect to a reservoir. Photo is by Luca Delise
Pipes collect rainwater from the outside and lead it on a closed-loop journey through the exhibition.
"The Biennale's overriding theme, 'How will we live together"' has inspired us to focus on the concept of connectedness," Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects told Dezeen. "Taking water as the physical element that connects all life on Earth as our point of departure, we're creating a spatial architectural exhibition where water is experienced in tamed, processed and boundless states."
A wooden footbridge marks the entrance to the pavilion
"Water is invited in, staged, sensed and then flows out of the pavilion again," said Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects.
"While exploring the various spaces of the exhibition, visitors can become part of the cyclic system by drinking a cup of tea brewed with leaves from the herbal plants that absorb water from the cyclic system."
Visitors are led around the space by the PVC pipes
A reservoir containing ...