Bahrain's Pavilion is the one that won the Golden Lion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture and it's main theme is an investigation on the decline of sea culture in the Island.
The Pavilion was of a particular interest of me as it tackles close problematic issues concerning the decline of a specific activity that unify the Bahraini culture in a very sensitive an settle way, by showing how the fisherman huts looked like and how they were used.
"Given the range of vast urban developments that Kingdom of Bahrain could have been tempted to include in this Exhibition, the jury was impressed by the choice, instead, of a lucid and forceful self-analysis of the nation’s relationship with its rapidly changing coastline. Here transient forms of architecture are presented as devices for reclaiming the sea as a form of public space: an exceptionally humble yet compelling response to People Meet in Architecture, the theme proposed by Exhibition Director Kazuyo Sejima." (Explanatory statement of the Jury on the Venice Biennale website)
Another interesting and eye catching project:
“Blueprint is a dialogue between an artist’s home and its past, present, and future silhouette. Do Ho Suh’s work is a full-scale 12.7 meter tall, fabric façade of the New York townhouse where he currently lives. Suh Architects’ full scale floor installation is a composite image of three facades: Doho Suh’s current home, the hanok in which both brothers grew up, and a typical Venetian villa. This hard, imagined “shadow” thus reflects a soft, existing home’s façade, blurring one’s notion of home.”
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