Every architectural artefact or space has unique qualities which, in order to be described and communicated in its absence, must be either photographed, drawn, modeled, written, or otherwise reproduced. This project proposed to use sound as the sole means of description and communication.
Gallery walls and floors on which to display are eliminated. In their place is an audio chamber capable of rendering spatial experience. The chamber is a temporary construction of scaffolding and prefabricated panels set on a barge. The barge will be anchored in the Venice Lagoon for the duration of the Biennale; then the pavilion will be taken away and dismantled.
Visitors must step off the artificial land of Venice and cross the bridge to reach the pavilion. Ramps rise off the floor of the barge and wrap helically around the raised inner chamber, leaving most of the lower level open. The ramps are clad in progressively denser materials which gradually separates the visitor from the surrounding city. Inside, after crossing another bridge at the top of either ramp, the visitor is comfortably seated on a dimly lit platform, suspended in a seemingly impenetrable darkness. An electronic sound system capable of implying vastness or claustrophobia, movement or stasis, is at the disposal of the architect representing Canada in Venice.
(From competitor's text)
4 scanned / 4 viewable
- Presentation Panel
- Presentation Panel
- Presentation Panel Excerpt
- Presentation Panel Excerpt
