{"id":97,"date":"2025-09-22T10:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newtoursagency.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:26:34","slug":"deconstructed-barns-become-cocooning-pavilion-at-copenhagen-architecture-biennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newtoursagency.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/deconstructed-barns-become-cocooning-pavilion-at-copenhagen-architecture-biennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructed barns become cocooning pavilion at Copenhagen Architecture Biennial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weathered wood<\/a> salvaged from disused farm buildings has been repurposed in Barn Again, a pavilion<\/a> at Copenhagen Architecture Biennial<\/a> designed and built by British practice THISS Studio<\/a> and architectural designer Tom Svilans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Located at Gammel Strand in the Danish capital, the pavilion was built from reclaimed wood from disused barns and landfill sites in Norway, which would otherwise have been burned.<\/p>\n

It was designed by THISS Studio<\/a> and Svilans<\/a> to serve as a meditative space for the public that doubles as an opportunity to showcase the potential of reclaimed materials.<\/p>\n

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Barn Again is one of two Slow Pavilions at Copenhagen Architecture Biennial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Barn Again is one of two pavilions at Copenhagen Architecture Biennial<\/a> selected through its Slow Pavilions open call, which invited structures designed in response to its theme Slow Down.<\/p>\n

The other pavilion is Inside Out, Downside Up by architecture studio Slaatto Morsb\u00f8l<\/a>, which was also built of reclaimed materials, including perforated bricks.<\/p>\n

For Barn Again, the goal of THISS Studio and Svilans was to highlight the abundance of existing materials in the world today and their structural and aesthetic potential in architecture.<\/p>\n

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It is built from wood salvaged from disused barns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The building materials that we need to build now already exist, and we need to find them and work with them,” said THISS Studio co-founder Tamsin Hanke.<\/p>\n

“For me, this has been the prevailing message,” she told Dezeen during the opening of the pavilion.<\/p>\n

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The textured boards are arranged as a cocooning, stepped form<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The reclaimed wood boards used for the structure are each heavily textured, marked by both weathering and human activity during their previous lives.<\/p>\n

“You’ll see markings from when they were originally made with what they call the carpenter’s marks, and all sorts of little details that tell their story from who knows what past they’ve had,” added Svilans.<\/p>\n