Uncertainty. Spanish Pavilion that shares interdisciplinary architectures for the future of coexistence

13/05/2021. 17th International Architecture Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia 2020. [VEN] Italy 22.05 > 21.11.2021
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The Spanish pavilion for this edition of La Biennale di Venezia is titled Uncertainty-Incertidumbre. The winning proposal will be curated by the team formed by the Canarian architects Sofía Piñero, Domingo J. González, Andrzej Gwizdala and Fernando Herrera.

Under this motto, the Pavilion will present a selection of 34 projects, collected in turn by the team of curators through an open call, to which a total of 466 proposals were submitted.

Uncertainty will open on May 21 at 1:00 p.m. and can be visited in Venice until November 2021.

The concept of the pavilion revolves around the idea that in the face of uncertainty, architecture is combined with other disciplines at the service of social projects. That is why the pavilion exhibits the architecture of social impact from different disciplines, providing new reflections and ways of exercising a trade that has known how to evolve to adapt to all the dimensions and needs of a society in constant change.
Uncertainty. Spanish Pavilion that shares interdisciplinary architectures for the future of coexistence. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
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The Spanish Pavilion has selected proposals that value the creative process over the finished iconic piece, processes executed in a multidisciplinary way and with a clear positive social impact. That is why the selection of proposals collected is very heterogeneous.
 
“The selected team raises the issue of the uncertainty of their generation and symbolizes it in an original project: a cloud of different professional curricula, indicating how the career has ceased to be a unique practice of Architecture and has been transformed into a vision of new endeavors. How the work of architects for a better society can now be done from many fields, previously unexplored."
Manuel Blanco, ETSAM director.

Showing the work of professionals who have known how to face uncertainty by seeking new uses for the tools offered by Architecture has been the main objective of this edition. In the words of the curators, the exhibition of the Pavilion does not admit a concrete answer to Sarkis' question, How will we live together?, but rather invites to generate infinite questions, which, however, keep an implicit certainty: the future will be together or will not be. UNCERTAINTY is here to stay and we must accept the challenge of staying in change.

The project of the Spanish pavilion presents a selection of actions that hybridize and expand the competencies of architecture to face new social demands, blurring imposed disciplinary and conceptual borders that have ended up becoming dogmas, creating open concepts based on realities before. perceived as antagonistic. Uncertainty urges us to open up our certainties, focusing on investigating their limits and showing actions that allow different dimensions of reality to become dynamic and adaptable procedural elements.

This is how we can conclude that the objective of the works exhibited in the pavilion is not to show a built space but to provide a catalog of flexible architectural strategies that will be necessary to face the future of our coexistence and its social and environmental implications.

Exhibition itinerary

The Spanish pavilion becomes an interactive machine, an uncertain platform, a continuous process, a space for reflection where, instead of consolidating already obsolete certainties, the visitor is invited to participate in the collective construction of questions that arise from the motto of the Biennale of this edition.

Experiencing uncertainty begins with immersion in a heterogeneous cloud of portfolios, generated from thousands of sheets of paper, where proposals and actions are collected that build a repository of strategies to be able to live together, an inexhaustible source of uncertainties that works as a base of data from the rest of the pavilion.

In the exhibition ring that surrounds the Cloud space, the Draw takes place, a process that, reflecting the continuous transformation of our reality, turns each visit to the pavilion into a unique and indeterminate experience. The visitor will enter the Draw through four side rooms that, functioning as a cabinet of curiosities, allow wandering in a non-hierarchical landscape of abstract and decontextualized pieces, representative of the selected projects. Halfway through your tour, you will go through the Juntos room, where through an audiovisual projection, you will be able to observe the sequence of interpretive operations by which the different exposed projects are selected from the Cloud.

In these spaces, the Draw connects the different projects based on the disciplinary boundaries that each one questions, reflecting their relationship through a scenography in which objects, lights, and screens act. The temporal relationships created by this exhibition sequence allow each project to go beyond the limits of its context and open up to new transversal readings, reinforcing the role of uncertainty as a generator of new opportunities.

Uncertainty. Spanish Pavilion that shares interdisciplinary architectures for the future of coexistence. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
Pavilion curators. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Pavilion curators. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
Pavilion ground floor. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
Pavilion concept. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
Memory laticework, Carmen Moreno Álvarez. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Memory laticework, Carmen Moreno Álvarez. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Bells, Sebastián Arquitectos (Sergio Sebastián Franco). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Irene Ruiz Bazán.
Bells, Sebastián Arquitectos (Sergio Sebastián Franco). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Irene Ruiz Bazán.
A seat for migrants, Baum arquitectura (Marta Barrera Altemir, Javier Caro Domínguez, Miguel Gentil Fernández). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
A seat for migrants, Baum arquitectura (Marta Barrera Altemir, Javier Caro Domínguez, Miguel Gentil Fernández). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
Poems, Joan Margarit. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Carlos A. Schwartz.
Poems, Joan Margarit. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Carlos A. Schwartz.
Strictly welcomed, Recetas Urbanas. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Recetas Urbanas.
Strictly welcomed, Recetas Urbanas. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Recetas Urbanas.
Seeing water without eyes, Laura Muñoz González. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Laura Muñoz González.
Seeing water without eyes, Laura Muñoz González. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Laura Muñoz González.
Playing with space. Playing with light, Ana Mombiedro, Sara San Gregorio, Alicia Gutiérrez. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
Playing with space. Playing with light, Ana Mombiedro, Sara San Gregorio, Alicia Gutiérrez. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
Briks Pavilion, Cuac arquitectura (Tomás García Píriz, F. Javier Castellano Pulido), Sugar Platform (Julien Fajardo, Christophe Beauvez). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla.
Briks Pavilion, Cuac arquitectura (Tomás García Píriz, F. Javier Castellano Pulido), Sugar Platform (Julien Fajardo, Christophe Beauvez). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Javier Callejas Sevilla.
#OlotMésB, Paisaje Transversal (Guillermo Acero, Jon Aguirre, Jorge Arévalo, Pilar Díaz, Iñaki Romero, Sonia Ortega, Ángela Peralta, Consol Prados). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Ayuntamiento de Olot y Paisaje Transversal.
#OlotMésB, Paisaje Transversal (Guillermo Acero, Jon Aguirre, Jorge Arévalo, Pilar Díaz, Iñaki Romero, Sonia Ortega, Ángela Peralta, Consol Prados). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Ayuntamiento de Olot y Paisaje Transversal.
Showroom, Palauet de Nolla, Milena Villalba Montoya, Santiago Hernández Puig. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Milena Villalba.
Showroom, Palauet de Nolla, Milena Villalba Montoya, Santiago Hernández Puig. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Milena Villalba.
Ginseng steamed pork heart, Chenta Tsai Tseng. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Chenta Tsai Tseng.
Ginseng steamed pork heart, Chenta Tsai Tseng. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Chenta Tsai Tseng.
Cromópolis, Sawu Studio (Aylin Vera Ramos, Pablo García Mena). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Asier Rua y Sawu Studio.
Cromópolis, Sawu Studio (Aylin Vera Ramos, Pablo García Mena). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Asier Rua y Sawu Studio.
CANS: Consensus architectures, CreuseCarrasco (Juan Creus Andrade, Covadonga Carrasco López). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Chimpinbus_Rafa Costas.
CANS: Consensus architectures, CreuseCarrasco (Juan Creus Andrade, Covadonga Carrasco López). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Galiñeiro_Alberto Pérez.
A small village. Residence for the elderly in Aldeamayor de San Martín, Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.
A small village. Residence for the elderly in Aldeamayor de San Martín, Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso.
Renaixement, Miguel Arraiz García, David Moreno Terrón. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Noel Arraiz García.
Renaixement, Miguel Arraiz García, David Moreno Terrón. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Noel Arraiz García.
Desert City. Nursery for xerophytic species and associated uses, GarcíaGermán Arquitectos. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Desert City. Nursery for xerophytic species and associated uses, GarcíaGermán Arquitectos. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Swing back pack, Araceli Calero Castro, Macarena Castillo Párraga, Rosa Gallardo Parralo. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Araceli Calero, Macarena Castillo, Rosa Gallardo.
Swing back pack, Araceli Calero Castro, Macarena Castillo Párraga, Rosa Gallardo Parralo. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Araceli Calero, Macarena Castillo, Rosa Gallardo.
Biotic city / Agroplaza, Pez[estudio] (Maé Durant Vidal, Elisa de los Reyes García López). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Nomad Garden, Sergio Rodríguez Estévez.
Biotic city / Agroplaza, Pez[estudio] (Maé Durant Vidal, Elisa de los Reyes García López). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Nomad Garden, Sergio Rodríguez Estévez.
Kleos Sevilla, Nomad Garden, Antropoloops, Datrik Intelligence. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Nomad Garden, Sergio Rodríguez Estévez.
Kleos Sevilla, Nomad Garden, Antropoloops, Datrik Intelligence. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Nomad Garden, Sergio Rodríguez Estévez.
The bedroom script, John Porral Soldevilla. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by María Cano.
The bedroom script, John Porral Soldevilla. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by María Cano.
Kinesofos, Sergi Hernández Carretero. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by John Porral.
Kinesofos, Sergi Hernández Carretero. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by John Porral.
Digital intimacy, Hyper Studio (Cristóbal Baños, Diego Iglesias). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Paco Gelardo.
Digital intimacy, Hyper Studio (Cristóbal Baños, Diego Iglesias). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Paco Gelardo.
Superbarrio, IAAC (Areti Markopoulou, Marco Ingrassia, Aurel Richard, Starsk Lara, Raquel Villodrés, Diego Pajarito, Angelos Chronis). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña.
Superbarrio, IAAC (Areti Markopoulou, Marco Ingrassia, Aurel Richard, Starsk Lara, Raquel Villodrés, Diego Pajarito, Angelos Chronis). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña.
The critters black den, Animali Domestici (Antonio Bernacchi, Alicia Lazzaroni). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Animali Domestici.
The critters black den, Animali Domestici (Antonio Bernacchi, Alicia Lazzaroni). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Animali Domestici.
Telefónica 5G: Segovia AR experience, Natoural (Carlos Timoner Lloréns, Juan Antonio García Navarro, Juan Francisco Sánchez López, Pedro Milanés Hernández, Javier Torres Suárez). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Natoural Group.
Telefónica 5G: Segovia AR experience, Natoural (Carlos Timoner Lloréns, Juan Antonio García Navarro, Juan Francisco Sánchez López, Pedro Milanés Hernández, Javier Torres Suárez). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Natoural Group.
Urban samples. Urban density classifier with neural networks, Alejandro Cantera López. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Alejandro Cantera López.
Urban samples. Urban density classifier with neural networks, Alejandro Cantera López. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Alejandro Cantera López.
Portable architectures, María José Marcos Torró. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Jonathan Berna.
Portable architectures, María José Marcos Torró. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Jonathan Berna.
Airmesh, Airlab (Carlos Bañón, Félix Raspall). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Carlos Bañon.
Airmesh, Airlab (Carlos Bañón, Félix Raspall). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Carlos Bañon.
The nice host, Quatre Caps (Bernat Ivars Vinaroz, Dídac Sendra Rabena, Juan Suay Rel, Miguel Tomás Tena). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Quatre Caps.
The nice host, Quatre Caps (Bernat Ivars Vinaroz, Dídac Sendra Rabena, Juan Suay Rel, Miguel Tomás Tena). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Quatre Caps.
OTF: 3D printing architecture, IAAC (Alexandre Dubor, Edouard Cabay, Kunaljit Chadha, Mathilde Marengo). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by OTF 3D printing with industrial robot .
OTF: 3D printing architecture, IAAC (Alexandre Dubor, Edouard Cabay, Kunaljit Chadha, Mathilde Marengo). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by OTF Proposal - Kakuma.
Foll(i)cle. A toxi-mapping for Bangkok, Pareid (Déborah López Lobato, Hadin Charbel). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Déborah López y Hadin Charbel, Pareid.
Foll(i)cle. A toxi-mapping for Bangkok, Pareid (Déborah López Lobato, Hadin Charbel). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Déborah López y Hadin Charbel, Pareid.
The urbanite meme, Alberto López de Lucas. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
The urbanite meme, Alberto López de Lucas. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Image courtesy of Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion.
Mycoscapes, Chiara Farinea, Mohamad El Atab, Federica Ciccone, Sotiria Sarri. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña y Federica Ciccone.
Mycoscapes, Chiara Farinea, Mohamad El Atab, Federica Ciccone, Sotiria Sarri. Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña y Federica Ciccone.
Openbike, Arquimaña (Iñaki Albistur Martín, Raquel M. Ares Joana). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Arquimaña.
Openbike, Arquimaña (Iñaki Albistur Martín, Raquel M. Ares Joana). Uncertainty - Spanish Pavilion. Photograph by Arquimaña.
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More information

Developers
Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda. Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID). Spanish Cultural Action (AC/E).
Curators
Domingo J. González, Sofía Piñero, Andrzej Gwizdala, Fernando Herrera.
Collaborators
David Reyes, Julia Zasada, Melián Estudio, Banda Bisagra, Grace Morales, Lavernia & Cienfuegos. Experts.- Atxu Amann, Manuel Blanco, Belén Butragueño, Manuel Feo, Marta García, Jorge Gorostiza, Mario Hidrobo, Francisco Leiva, María Isabel Navarro, N’Undo, Juan Manuel Palerm, Gonzalo Pardo, Sergio Pardo, Javier Fco. Raposo, Ángela Ruiz, Mariasun Salgado, Pedro Torrijos.
Dates
May 22 to November 21, 2021.
Venue
Spanish Pavilion in Giardini, Venice, Italy.

Sofía Piñero Rivero

Sofía Piñero Rivero (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1988) Graduated in Architecture from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2017. She participated in the first edition of the DEMOLA program in the Canary Islands. Sofía Piñero has combined collaborations of varying lengths in various studios and real estate and construction companies with disparate jobs as a salesperson, singer, or storyteller. She has taken part in various archaeological studies and some publications. Sofía's profile is directed towards artistic restlessness, which she has nurtured through music, dance, and theater studies, being part of various theater and musical groups, and associations such as the Auditorio de Tenerife Spectator School.

Domingo Jacobo González Galván

Domingo Jacobo González Galván (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1988) Graduated in Architecture from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2014. Collaborator in various architecture offices in Tenerife such as Palerm & Tabares de Nava and Dos07 Arquitectos coordinates his professional life with the profile Researcher for both Canary Islands public universities and independently, and works on various projects related to architecture, landscape, heritage, and archeology. In 2019 he completed the Master in Theory and History of Art and Cultural Management at the University of La Laguna, where he was awarded the Extraordinary Master Award.

Andrzej Gwizdala

Andrzej Gwizdala (Krakow, 1988). He completed the Master of Architecture at LaCambre Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium 2007-2013) with the Grande Distinction mention. He has worked on a scholarship at internationally renowned firms such as Studio Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome, Atelier Christian de Portzamparc in Paris, and is currently an architect at GPY Arquitectos in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Together with his current study, he has collaborated in various publications and projects on the islands such as the New Exhibition Space Casa de Los Volcanes Los Jameos del Agua in Lanzarote, obtaining multiple awards in competitions such as the International Architecture Awards IAA 2020.

Fernando Herrera Pérez

Fernando Herrera Pérez (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1988), Architect from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2013. Master's degree in teacher training from the University of La Laguna in 2019. He worked from 2013 to 2016 at the Technological Advisory Center (CAT) and Office of Architecture Competitions of the COAC - Official College of Architects of the Canary Islands - Demarcation of Tenerife, La Gomera, and El Hierro. Since then he has collaborated in various competitions and projects with various studios on the island.
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