Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
The temporary pavilion will be aim to exhibit the drawings by architect Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940) for the chapel in the Skogskyrkogården cemetery in Stockholm, conceived as a prelude to the exhibition itinerary and embodying the essence of the entire project of the Holy See Pavilion exhibition at the next edition of the International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The pavilion, all made of wood by Alpi, will be the only non-religious artifact to exhibit Asplund’s drawings. The element in its absolutism is intended to refer both to the stereometry of the supporting buildings designed by Asplund and Lewerentz for the Skogskyrkogården cemetery and to the theme and spatiality of the hut – shelter in nature. A sort of domesticated absolute which borrows from traditional Nordic woodwork and in particular to the Stavkirke, a reinterpreted vernacular lexicon. The exhibition is integrated into the structure of the pavilion itself: an unicum defines the entire interior space and hosts, in the articulation of the thickness of the walls, the reproductions of the project drawings by Gunnar Asplund for the Skogskapellet, the texts and the models.