UNFOLDING PAVILION LITTLE ITALY 1من اصل2

AT THE 2018 VENICE BIENNALE
The ‘Unfolding Pavilion’ is an exhibition and editorial project that pops up
at major architecture events in previously inaccessible but architecturally
significant buildings.
On each occasion the ‘Unfolding Pavilion’ features a different theme
inspired by the space it occupies, by means of commissioned original works
that react to it and to its wider cultural-historic background. The ‘Unfolding
Pavilion’ doesn’t necessarily care about the hosting event’s theme. It lets its
occupied space inspire its own theme. Without a good exhibition space (of
the finest architectural making), the ‘Unfolding Pavilion’ doesn’t have any
reason to exist.
In its 2018 edition, the ‘Unfolding Pavilion’ entered Gino Valle’s Giudecca
Social Housing from the 25th to the 29th of May 2018, on the occasion of the
vernissage of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition at the Biennale
d iVenezia. In order to do so, it refurbished one of its empty dwellings – the
n.7, one of the triplex units that are accessible from the elevated walkway,
with unique views over the lagoon and the historical center – so to convert
it in a temporary gallery of works, and use the commons spaces of the
complex as the poetic backdrop for a three days-long program of public
events. After the ending of the exhibition, the temporary gallery will be
converted once again in one of the available social housing units, after five
years of being unoccupied, and finally returned to the citizens of Venice as
such.
All the contributions to the ‘Unfolding Pavilion 2018’ were produced and/or
organized by the members of the ‘Little Italy’ project: a collaborative network
of Italian architects who were born in the 1980s. The exhibition, public and
free,