ReCasting by Alison Brooks Architects, Venice Architecture Biennale Installation
ReCasting by Alison Brooks Architects
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25 May 2018
ReCasting by Alison Brooks Architects at Venice Biennale 2018
Installation by Alison Brooks Architects at 16th International Architecture Exhibition
Alison Brooks Architects unveils a major immersive installation ?ReCasting? at 16th International Architecture Exhibition ? La Biennale di Venezia

Photos © Luke Hayes
Alison Brooks Architects have been invited by the Curators 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara to respond to this year?s theme of ?Freespace? by addressing the subject of housing and urban dwelling.
The Biennale theme ?Freespace? celebrates architecture?s capacity to find additional and unexpected generosity in each project ? the spaces, textures and moments of human experience in architecture that can be freely enjoyed. Alison Brooks Architects has created a large-scale, site specific installation that simulates the critical freespaces of their work in housing as four inhabitable ?totems?: Threshold, Inhabited Edge, Passage, and Roofspace.
The totems invite exploration, emerging from a unifying plinth to frame an amphitheatre and collective gathering space. Each totem offers a particular spatial, emotional and sensory experience, harnessing the Corderie?s specific qualities of light and volu...