The product of collaborations among Ryue Nishizawa, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Koh Kitayama, and many others, the Japanese pavilion focused on the idea of Tokyo's metabolism: its scattered volumes, and its void volumes. Moriyama House is an example of scattered volumes, which can have multifunctional uses and becomes a landscape in itself. Photo 2 of 15 in Venice Biennale: National Pavilions 1 by Tiffany Chu

Venice Biennale: National Pavilions 1

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The product of collaborations among Ryue Nishizawa, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Koh Kitayama, and many others, the Japanese pavilion focused on the idea of Tokyo's metabolism: its scattered volumes, and its void volumes. Moriyama House is an example of scattered volumes, which can have multifunctional uses and becomes a landscape in itself.