“Open for Maintenance”: A Real Life Experiment on Reusing and Recycling at the German Pavilion

How to effectively recycle and reuse the leftovers of the Art Biennale? Curator Anh-Linh Ngo shares with us the story behind "Open for Maintenance", the German pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. The pavilion is an active experiment on how to recycle and reuse the leftover materials from the past Biennale, supported by a digital twin platform that enables an ongoing maintenance work in the pavilion and across Venice during the duration of the event.
00:31 Process
00:47 Recycling the national pavilions
01:23 Breaking the existing German pavilion
02:24 The maintenance workshop
03:33 Gentrification in Venice
04:11 Rethinking architectural production
04:44 Young architects and reusing materials
05:22 Digital twin catalog with Concular
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Recycling captured the attention of the public some years ago now, but the introduction of 'repurposing' and 'upcycling' is now showing itself more clearly each year. I applaud the use of such methods, and the sparking of new creative ideas from such materials with younger designers. There is a huge scope of innovative possibilities with this project. Excellent video.