THE STUDIO EXHIBITS AT THE 13th VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

The Studio is off to Venice, for the preview opening on the 27th of August, of the 13th Architectural Biennale. We are pleased to be one of the architecture practices representing the Danish Pavilion. After a year's work, collaborating with Henning Larsen Architects and Greenlandic, KITAA architects, and an endless list of Greenlander who welcomed us to their homes, our research and proposal on Greenland and its migration challenges is finally finished.

When debating the future of Greenland, migration is on the agenda. Tourism, mining and mineral exploration can cause a migration flow that might turn the greenlandic population into a minority in their own country. The project investigates a historic dynamic urban development in Greenland and creates new aggregating structures that facilitate the meeting of different groups of people in the urban context.

. INTRODUCTION
In 1973, the small settlement  of Qullissat was closed down due to the demise of its mining industry.
Its population migrated to Ilulissat and took an important part of the community with them; their meeting space, their church. Today, this building stand as a symbol of how meeting spaces are of vital importance to a community.
Movement and migration have been and are an intrinsic aspect of the Greenlandic culture.

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