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Robabecciah -
Venice Biennale
Venice, Italy
2018
Curators - Islam Elmashtooly, Mouaz Abouzaid and
Cristiano Luchetti
Commissioner - Egyptian Ministry of Culture
Collaboration - Janneke Eggink and Jason Chia
Exhibitor for the Egyptian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018. In collaboration with Jason Chia, the large scale mapping #Hatch shows different scales from full Egypt, to Cairo up to the human scale experience of the informal markets.
The pavilion got selected as a finalist for the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in the category "Display - Completed Buildings".
See the full exhibition booklet online: Robabeccia
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“Freespace describes a generosity of spirit and a sense of humanity at the core of architecture’s agenda, focusing on the quality of space itself”
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