Venice Architecture Biennale adapts to changed world

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At the Venice Architecture Biennale, the focus is on climate change. Adaptation is the new buzzword. How do we design buildings for a world with droughts, floods and heatwaves? The Biennale provides answers.

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00:00The wrong end of the air conditioners warm the air in a dark, flooded room.

00:05Michelangelo Pistoletto's installation evokes the central theme of the Biennale,

00:10climate change.

00:12The message is, adapt to survive, rethinking design for a changing world.

00:20What we need to look for is a better alliance with nature,

00:23how to make cities with nature, not against it.

00:26For curator Carlo Ratti, combining natural resources with both human and artificial intelligence is key.

00:36Even hostile natural forces such as lava, its destructive force is tamed here

00:42and transformed into a sustainable resource providing materials to construct entire cities.

00:52A visionary installation at Iceland's National Pavilion.

00:56In Iceland now we have on and off going lava eruptions

01:02and we thought that maybe it is a good time to think about that.

01:05Could we use it as a building material?

01:06And it has all the elements that we have in building materials today,

01:10like structure, glass-like or insulation.

01:14Solidified lava is directly processed following an eruption.

01:18Could this be a building material of the future?

01:28At the Venice Biennale, architects are collaborating with biologists, physicists and other scientists

01:34to come up with new building concepts and to develop innovative construction materials.

01:39Bricks made from various materials from the Venetian Lagoon.

01:47Or from elephant dung.

01:49But finding new materials is not the only path to reducing carbon emissions in construction.

01:54The exhibition at the Danish pavilion demonstrates maintenance of an existing building

02:02that reuses resources already present in its construction.

02:06We invite a lot of specialists on board so they help us look into various ways

02:13and how to utilize all the construction waste.

02:15So everything you see in the pavilion came from the pavilion itself.

02:19So nothing has been removed and things have just been reconfigured.

02:23Each element, wood, stone, sand or clay, is approached not in terms of its original use,

02:31but for what it can still contribute to the existing environment.

02:43In Ukraine, war rubble has unfortunately become an abundant material.

02:47With the installation Circularity on the Edge, Ukrainian architects are developing plans for reconstruction.

02:58With this project, we want to manifest the desire of Ukrainians to have a more innovative, greener,

03:06more positive reconstruction in these dark times we face every day with the war and destruction.

03:11So we tried to use digital instruments to see if we can optimize the logistics and recycling of these materials in reconstruction of Ukraine.

03:22With the help of AI, the debris of war will have a new life.

03:26Rebuilding and reshaping a world in crisis is the shared vision of the more than 750 participants

03:33at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025.

03:41Beyond the Biennale, architects around the world have implemented designs that are sustainable and aesthetic.

03:51Here's an arts unveiled journey around the globe.

03:54in Ukraine, the 멋-like space in the entire world have designed the space to form a wide range for

04:00our target-level students who have deployed their ties in for generations to get to the water-like suits.

04:01In Ukraine, the Foundation has been the first它 as the benefits of its development and the philosophy of the future.

04:02You can adapt to the project, including the education of the lives of others.

04:04In Ukraine, the Foundation has been the largest, Yazan, the system of the energy scope of the world

04:05in the future as the projects that exist.

04:06There was a major big issue in the future of the future,

04:07in Ukraine.

04:08The Foundation has been the best to continue to have a better plan for this project.

04:11And during the next episode, the Foundation has been the best to know both the community.

04:13The Foundation has been the most part of its development.

04:15The Foundation has been the most part of the launch function of theczenie in the future.

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