Germany's contribution to this year's Venice Architecture Biennale is a huge store of materials recovered from last year's art biennale, all set to find new uses around the city.
Materials recovered from over 40 installations have been collected and catalogued, ready to be used for repairing and upgrading buildings and public spaces all over Venice.
With the title Open for Maintenance, the exhibition is billed as "an action framework for a new building culture".
The German Pavilion contains recycled materials ready to be repurposed
"The key word is maintenance," said architect Petter Krag, who is one of eight members of the curatorial team.
"We wanted to show how, for architects like myself, there are other ways of working with materials," he told Dezeen during a tour of the pavilion. "We can develop new ways of reusing materials for repair work."
The materials will be used for repair projects around Venice
The curatorial team includes four architects ? Krag and Juliane Greb represent Büro Juliane Greb, while Anne Femmer and Florian Summa are from the Leipzig-based practice, Summacumfemmer.
They are joined by Franziska Gödicke, Christian Hiller, Melissa Makele and Anh-Linh Ngo, who are editors and contributors for the German architecture magazine ARCH+.
A new ramp makes the pavilion entrance more accessible
The German pavilion show consists of several elements. These include the material store and a workshop where visitors can see ...