🌴Exploring The British Pavilion: Vena Cava 🌴
The Palm House at Kew Gardens was the beating heart of the British botanical empire.
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The structure itself is left empty, effectively turning the Palm House inside out, probing the possibility of a reparative architecture emerging from the rhythms of material life-cycles and their politics of ecological restitution.
Collaborators: @maelokko and Gustavo Crembil
A series of graphite drawings cover the walls and ceiling, telling the story of how this space debris is tied to real-life exploitation and resource extraction.
Collaborators: @thandiloewenson
Join the curators for this year's British Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition for a compelling conversation about Architecture as an Earth practice. The team will be expanding on the exhibition’s central themes of repair, reparation, and resistance.
These were used to create the rattan weave structure, the undulating forms of which exactly follow those of the cave at a scale of 1:1, reimagining a space of trauma as one of repair and healing.
Collaborators: Phil Ayres and Jack Young at The Royal Danish Academy
🎉 Doors opened yesterday for GBR – Geology Of Britannic Repair at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition @la_biennale 🎉
This year’s British Pavilion explores the relationship between architecture and colonisation as parallel, interconnected practices.
Did you spot our River of Hope in the #PlatinumJubileePageant on Sunday?
Our partnership with @ThamesFestivalTrust brought together schools in the UK and across the Commonwealth to design flags for the parade – and yesterday 200 of them were carried down The Mall in #London🧵