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After the closing of the Venice Biennale: Five long-term questions of architectural adaptability
NO. 045 / 2025
ArchitectureNO. 045

After the closing of the Venice Biennale: Five long-term questions of architectural adaptability

The 2025 Architecture Biennale closed on November 23.Look at the natural. artificially. What really deserves to be preserved is not the exhibition form, but how the building continues to learn, maintain and collaborate.

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AbstractAbstract

The 2025 Architecture Biennale closed on November 23.Look at the natural. artificially. What really deserves to be preserved is not the exhibition form, but how the building continues to learn, maintain and collaborate.

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2025 Timeline and Evidence

The exhibition runs from May 10 to November 23.

The theme puts natural, artificial, and collective intelligence in the same framework.

A large number of experiments involved climate, materials, data and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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In-depth research

after the exhibition, we still need to ask: Can the prototype be expanded?Who is responsible for maintenance?Can technology work in the event of a weak network or power outage?Is community knowledge empowered?Can the material really circulate?

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Design Response Design Response

01 Set up post-show tracking and open documentation for prototype settings.

Write maintenance costs and skills into design reviews.

Retesting in different climatic and resource conditions.

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AURELIS observation

The most important legacy of the Biennale should be to make adaptation from a conceptual word to a long-inspectable architectural responsibility.

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Source of sources

01 https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/information

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SourcesSOURCES & FURTHER READING
  1. labiennale.org