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CHINESE PAVILION AT
2018 VENICE BIENNALE
The Chinese Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, themed
“Building a Future Countryside”, is endeavored to explore new technology
and ideas to make better of China’s rural areas. A digitally- fabricated
outdoor pavilion “Cloud Village” has been set up in addition to the national
exhibition at the Venetian Arsenale. The Cloud Village has a twisting form
which creates a sequence of open and semi- enclosed spaces under its roof.
It seeks to convey an abstraction of the everyday life in Chinese
countryside where boundaries of private and public realms are not always
The Cloud Village is structurally made possible by the robotic printing
technology developed by Philip F. Yuan and his team, Project description
from the architects. Cloud Village reflects the contemporary reality of
Chinese countryside through its semiotic performance of materiality. The
recycled plastic material of the pavilion indicates the crisis of the
environmental issue of contemporary Chinese countryside.
establishes a critical rethinking on the sustainable way of spatial production
for the future.
Response to the theme of the Chinese Pavilion – “Building a Future
Countryside”, the spatial distribution of Cloud Village pavilion is an abstract
representation of everyday life in the country side. The pavilion contains
four semi-enclosed cubic objects, which are organized together by a shared
linear roof. As all the “private spaces” completely opens to this central
public space, the boundary between them would only be defined by the
roof. Consequently, there would be no clear distinction between the private
and the public as well as the individual and the collective. In the end, this
kind of spatial uncertainty produces a latent atmosphere for the site to
destabilizing the identity of each occupant.
The robotic fabrication logic has been incorporated into the formation
process.