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Japan Pavilion Venice Biennale 2021

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12 May 2021

La Biennale di Venezia 2021 – The Japan Pavilion

The Japan Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition

Axonometric drawing of the concept: picture © DDAA + village

May 11, 2021

La Biennale di Venezia

Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements

The Japan Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia presents “Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements,” curated by Kadowaki Kozo. The project involves dismantling an old wooden house into its individual parts and elements, transporting them to Venice, and reconstructing the house in a new configuration with the addition of modern materials (such as scaffolding pipe, mesh, and blue tarps). The architects working on the project are collaborating with artisans and researchers to include improvisation and creative processes on site as part of the exhibition.

The issue of incessant mass consumption in contemporary society has been further intensified by movement, the ability to move large volumes of things quickly and inexpensively. Moving a postwar house that has outlived its usefulness in Japan to Venice and exhibiting it in a different context gives a completely new existence to the old materials that had once been part of a very ordinary house. By shifting the focus from movement for the purpose of consumption to movement for the purpose of reconstruction, the exhibition provides a significant stimulus for thinking about the issues associated with mass consumption, about the sustainability of architecture, and about how new architecture should be approached.

Basic information Title｜Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements Commissioner | The Japan Foundation (JF) Curator | Kozo Kadowaki Participants | Architects: Jo Nagasaka / Ryoko Iwase / Toshikatsu Kiuchi / Taichi Sunayama / Daisuke Motogi Designer: Rikako Nagashima Collaborators | Researchers: Norimasa Aoyagi / Aya Hiwatashi / Naoyuki Matsumoto / Tetsu Makino / Building System Design Laboratory at Meiji University (Kozo Kadowaki, Makoto Isono, Kimihito Ito) Editor | Jiro Iio Advisor | Kayoko Ota Photo | Jan Vranovský Video | Hirofumi Nakamoto Exhibition Design | Schemata Architects (Jo Nagasaka, Sanako Osawa , Yuhei Yagi) / Studio IWASE | Architecture+Landscape (Ryoko Iwase, Kaoru Endo, Musashi Makiyama) / sunayama studio+Toshikatsu Kiuchi Architect (Taichi Sunayama, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, Risako Okuizumi, Takuma Shiozaki, Kei Machida, Zu Architects) / DDAA (D aisuke Motogi, Riku Murai) Graphic Design | village® (Rikako Nagashima, Kohei Kawaminami, Hiroyuki Inada) Structural Engineering | TECTONICA (Yoshinori Suzuki, Kakeru Tsuruta) / Mitsuhiro Kanada Studio at Tokyo University of the

Arts (Mitsuhiro Kanada) / yasuhirokaneda STRUCTURE (Yasuhiro Kaneda) Exhibition Construction | TANK (Naritake Fukumoto, Ai Noguchi, Takashi Arai) / Takahiro Kai / Tsuguhiro Komazaki / Takashi Takamoto / Masayasu Fujiwara / Mauro Pasqualin / Pieter Jurriaanse / Paolo Giabardo / Valentino Pascolo / Jacopo David / Tommaso Rampazzo Fabrication Cooperation｜So Sugita Lab at Hiroshima Institute of Technology Local Coordinator | Harumi Muto Exhibition Design Management | associates (Kozo Kadowaki, Akiko Kadowaki) With special support of: Ishibashi Foundation Sponsored by: Stroog Inc. / JINS Holdings Inc. / Suikoukai Medical Corporation, Japan / KAMAWANU CO., LTD. / Window Research Institute In cooperation with: under design Co., Ltd. / IWASAKI ELECTRIC CO., LTD. / NBC Meshtec Inc. / KUMONOS Corporation / DAIKO ELECTRIC CO., LTD. / Japan 3D Printer Co., Ltd HAGIHARA INDUSTRIES INC. / Rotho Blaas Venue | The Japan Pavilion at the Giardini (Padiglione Giappone, Giardini della Biennale, Castello 1260, 30122 Venezia) Exhibition period | 22 May to 21 November, 2021 Pre-opening｜20 and 21 May, 2021 Website | https://vba2020.jp/

About the Commissioner The Japan Foundation is Japan’s only institution dedicated to carrying out comprehensive international cultural exchange programs throughout the world. The Japan Foundation was established in October 1972 as a special legal entity supervised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In October 2003, it was reorganized as an incorporated administrative agency. The Japan Foundation has a 25 overseas offices in 24 countries, to cultivate friendship and ties between Japan and the world, the Japan Foundation creates global opportunities to foster friendship, trust, and mutual understanding through culture, language, and dialogue.

Curator’s statement Your actions are not yours alone. Any act, however trivial, sits atop an accumulation of countless acts that arose from your interactions with someone else. Therefore it can never be said that what you do belongs solely to you.

This exhibition consists of an extremely ordinary Japanese wooden house. A country at the forefront of the world in population decline, Japan is awash in houses that have outlived their usefulness and sit there awaiting demolition. The house we shipped to Venice is one of them.

However, the house did not arrive in Venice intact. Having been dismantled to fit into containers for shipping, its various elements found new uses, repurposed into objects and structures appropriate for the garden of the Japan Pavilion, with roof elements being converted into benches, and so on. To reassemble the fragmented house on site into diverse configurations, the architects have engaged the skills and ideas of local and Japanese artisans, giving new life to each of the elements.

Elements that were not used in the garden are on display inside the Pavilion itself, which serves as a warehouse for the project. After its initial construction, the house underwent numerous renovations and expansions over the years that altered it in complex ways. Arranging its elements by era thus provides a clear picture of how the house contains the strata of successive periods in the history of postwar Japanese housing. For example, the earliest elements were primarily handmade, but as time progressed these were replaced by mass-produced members, a visible manifestation of the dramatic changes that took place in Japan’s construction industry over the course of the life of the house.

Upon viewing this thick accumulation of strata with one’s own eyes, it should be evident that the project architects have done only the slightest overwriting of that history. The trajectory that the house has taken in its long journey through time and space to arrive at this place is proof of how our actions are ineluctably rooted in the past and linked to the future. Kadowaki Kozo

About the Curator

Kozo Kadowaki

Kozo Kadowaki (b.1977, Kanagawa) is an architect and architectural theorist who holds a Ph.D. in Engineering. He is an Associate Professor at Meiji University, and practices architecture with his firm Associates. He graduated with a Masters from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 2001, where he also worked as a Research Associate and later as Assistant Professor. In 2012 he established his own architectural firm Associates. He currently serves as Editorial Chair of the Meiji University Press, with teaching positions at Tokyo University of the Arts and Japan Women’s University. While specializing in building systems design, he continues to engage in various activities and projects related to architectural criticism and design. He also works to develop his own architectural theories that are rooted in the physical elements of architecture.

Pre-opening

In advance of being opened to the general public, private viewings at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition will be held for people involved in the event and the press on Thursday, May 20 and Friday, May 21, 2021. There are currently no plans to hold an opening reception at the Japan Pavilion.

Japan Pavilion official website https://ift.tt/2SLUwy0

Japan Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements

Updates

When the exhibition was delayed for a year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, curator Kozo Kadowaki and others launched a new curator-organized project associated with the Japan Pavilion exhibition.

The aim was to 1) make good use of materials and elements after the Biennale, and 2) provide new ways for people to participate in the exhibition. This was achieved through an upcycle project to create products using materials such as wood from the house being transported to Venice, making the products available to project supporters through a crowdfunding process that facilitated a new way of participating in the exhibition and the addition of new trajectories.

After the exhibition, the house will move on again. There are plans in motion for it to be used as part of a community facility for residents of an apartment complex in the suburbs of Oslo. Funds raised by crowdfunding will also play a significant part in this and other post-Biennale initiatives.

The crowdfunding process was launched on August 11, 2020, and closed on October 1, 2020 after raising 4,825,888 yen from 259 supporters. Find out more: https://ift.tt/3vXN1SU

Outline of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Dates: May 22 (Sat) – November 21 (Sun), 2021 10:00~18:00 Closed on Mondays Tickets: Regular 25 euro Venues: Giardini di Castello, Arsenale, and various other venues Director: Hashim Sarkis Theme: How will we live together? Official Website: https://ift.tt/3tKYsM1

Awards

At the 13th(2012) International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia [Golden Lion for National Participation] Japan Pavilion Commissioner: Toyo Ito, Exhibitors: Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata (Architects), Naoya Hatakeyama (Photographer) At the 15th(2016) International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia [Special Mention] Japan Pavilion Curator: Yoshiyuki Yamana, Exhibitors: Seiichi Hishikawa, mnm (Mio Tsuneyama), Osamu Nishida+Erika Nakagawa (Osamu Nishida, Erika Nakagawa), Naruse Inokuma Architects (Jun Inokuma, Yuri Naruse), Naka Architects’ Studio (Toshiharu Naka, Yuri Uno), Nousaku Architects (Fuminori Nousaku, Junpei Nousaku), miCo. (Mizuki Imamura, Isao Shinohara), Levi Architecture (Jun Nakagawa), Shingo Masuda+Katsuhisa Otsubo Architects (Shingo Masuda, Katsuhisa Otsubo), Koji Aoki Architects (Koji Aoki), 403architecture [dajiba] (Takuma Tsuji, Takeshi Hashimoto, Toru Yada), BUS (Satoru Ito, Kosuke Bando, Issei Suma), dot architects (Toshikatsu Ienari, Takeshi Shakushiro, Wataru Doi) Japan Pavilion archive website (June 1, 2021~) https://ift.tt/3eGp4cZ Supplementary materials: 2

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Japan creates exhibition from dismantled old house at Venice Architecture Biennale

Japan has sent the dismantled remains of a 65-year-old house as its contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale, staging an exhibition that explores the potential for material reuse.

Titled The Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements, the exhibition on the terrace of the Japanese Pavilion features benches made from the old house's roof and screens constructed from its exterior walls.

Old house walls form exhibition screens at the Japan Pavilion

Inside, yet-to-be-reused elements of the house are lined up on display as if in a warehouse.

Prompted by the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale theme, How will we live together?, curator Kozo Kadowaki and his team wanted to explore sustainable alternatives to two waste-generating architectural practices: house demolitions and international exhibitions.

The team's answer was to rescue materials from the scrap heap in a way that honoured and documented their past, while also giving them a future. It sees this as a "co-ownership of architectural production" generated through movement and reconstruction.

Material from the old house is stored in the Pavilion as in a warehouse

The team is made up of architects Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architects, Ryoko Iwase of Studio Iwase, Toshikatsu Kiuchi of Toshikatsu Kiuchi Architect, Taichi Sunayama of Sunayama studio, and Daisuke Motogi of DDAA.

"Over the past few years, while participating in the Salone del Mobile Milano and other international events, I have been questioning the way international exhibitions should be held, especially when people have the tools such as Instagram and Facebook to communicate with the world whenever they want," said Nagasaka, who is the founder of Schemata Architects.

Parts of the old house have been made into benches

"Of course, it's important to actually see the works to scale with our own eyes, but in this day and age I personally think it is more suitable to inquire individually if you find specific works you are interested in, and you can visit the place where the works were actually created and have one-on-one conversations with artists or designers," he added.

It was while considering these questions that the curator invited Nagasaka to participate in the Venice Biennale exhibition, commissioned by The Japan Foundation.

"As a member of the participants, I told him that if I were to be involved, I would like to create an exhibition that would make people understand the meaning of moving," Nagasaka said. "This idea was well received and shared by everyone."

"In addition, we all agreed that if we were going to use new materials, we should make an exhibit using scrap materials that were being destroyed and thrown away."

The exhibition is made almost entirely of material from the old house

The materials they found to rescue are from the 65-year-old Takamizawa residence, a house that was set for demolition in front of Kadowaki's own home. They named it after the property's first owner.

The building contained layers of material from different periods generated by decades of renovations and expansions — developments that are documented as part of the Co-ownership of Action exhibition.

The Pavilion's workshop is experimenting with a circular saw lathe

The materials also have a future after the biennale, as there are plans for them to be used as part of a community facility for residents of an apartment complex in the suburbs of Oslo, Norway.

As well as the exhibition space in the courtyard and the material storage area inside, the Japanese Pavilion incorporates a workshop, which the team is using to explore the potential to reuse wood for furniture production.

The architects have shaped the old posts into interesting forms

Having devised a lathe process using a circular saw, they have shaped wood posts from the house into interesting forms, while leaving parts of them raw and untouched.

"The aged posts and beams, the distortions and scratches on them, all appear as rich expressions," said Nagasaka.

The Co-ownership of Action: Trajectories of Elements will be on display in the Giardini as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which takes place from 22 May to 21 November 2021. See Dezeen Events Guide for all the latest information you need to know to attend the event, as well as a list of other architecture and design events taking place around the world.

Photography is by Alberto Strada.

Project credits:

Curator: Kozo Kadowaki Architects: Ryoko Iwase, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, Taichi Sunayama, Daisuke Motogi, Jo Nagasaka Designer: Rikako Nagashima Researchers: Norimasa Aoyagi, Aya Hiwatashi, Naoyuki Matsumoto, Tetsu Makino, Building System Design Laboratory at Meiji University (Kozo Kadowaki, Makoto Isono, Kimihito Ito) Editor: Jiro Iio Advisor: Kayoko Ota Exhibition Design: Schemata Architects (Jo Nagasaka, Sanako Osawa, Yuhei Yagi), Studio IWASE | Architecture + Landscape (Ryoko Iwase, Kaoru Endo, Musashi Makiyama), Sunayama studio + Toshikatsu Kiuchi Architect (Taichi Sunayama, Toshikatsu Kiuchi, Risako Okuizumi, Takuma Shiozaki, Kei Machida / Zu Architects), DDAA (Daisuke Motogi, Riku Murai) Graphic Design: Village (Rikako Nagashima, Kohei Kawaminami, Hiroyuki Inada) Web developer: Kei Fujimoto Structural Engineering: TECTONICA (Yoshinori Suzuki, Kakeru Tsuruta), Mitsuhiro Kanada Studio at Tokyo University of the Arts (Mitsuhiro Kanada), Yasuhirokaneda STRUCTURE (Yasuhiro Kaneda) Exhibition Construction: TANK (Naritake Fukumoto, Ai Noguchi, Takashi Arai), Takahiro Kai, Tsuguhiro Komazaki Takashi Takamoto, Masayasu Fujiwara, Mauro Pasqualin, Pieter Jurriaanse, Paolo Giabardo, Valentino Pascolo, Jacopo David, Tommaso Rampazzo Fabrication Cooperation: So Sugita Lab at Hiroshima Institute of Technology Local Coordinator: Harumi Muto Exhibition Design Management: Associates (Kozo Kadowaki, Akiko Kadowaki)

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