The Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 features a transformative prototype designed by Bas Smets and Stefano Mancuso. It simulates a subtropical forest's understory, creating a dynamic indoor climate that controls temperature and humidity. The pavilion represents a shift in architectural design, promoting landscape architecture as a core aspect rather than mere decoration. By treating the pavilion as a living ecosystem, the project emphasizes sustainable design and reconnecting architecture with nature, addressing climate challenges through intelligent integration of plants and advanced environmental systems.
The Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale showcases a prototype emphasizing landscape architecture's integration into indoor spaces, highlighting climate resilience.
Bas Smets and Dennis Pohl stress the need to reconnect architecture with nature, framing the pavilion as a living ecosystem that supports dynamic climate interactions.
Landscape thinking emerges as an active design force in the pavilion, indicating a paradigm shift towards evolving environments rather than static architecture.
The pavilion features 400 carefully chosen plants, with advanced systems allowing them to communicate their needs, redefining indoor ecological comfort.
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