Peruvian Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale
location: venice, italy
client: patronato cultural del perú | fundación wiese
curators: s. barclay - j.p. crousse
project team: b. ruiz
participants: Ministerio de Educación del Perú - Plan Selva
e. añaños, r. huarcaya, m. nolte
built surface: 232m2
completion: 2016
photographer: m. romanzi
prizes: Special Mention of the Jury - Venice Biennale
The Peruvian Pavilion at the 15th Mostra di Architettura shows an unprecedented action to further dialogue in equal terms between the ancestral world of the Amazon and the modern Western vision of this land. Long considered either a frontier to be conquered or a region to be kept untouched, Peru is now fighting for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest through education, empowering indigenous communities to be custodians of their own land. In this endeavor, architecture proposes a flexible modular solution, attentive to climatic conditions and respectful to the Amazonian way of life, and provides the framework for this major cultural shift. The exhibition showed Plan Selva, a public large-scale program by the Peruvian Ministry of Education, along with two photographic pieces of visual research about the amazon region by Roberto Huarcaya and Musuk Nolte.
