CAFx: Open Call til to pavilloner til Copenhagen Architecture Biennial

CAFx: Open Call til to pavilloner til den kommende Copenhagen Architecture Biennial (18.09-19.10) for "emerging spatial practitioners" bosat i de nordiske lande.

Set out to imagine what a great deceleration of the global system might look, feel, and sound like on a local scale. Design and build a pavilion in the Cultural District of Copenhagen, that will act as a symbol and hub for the first Copenhagen Architecture Biennial.

'Slow Down' – the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial invites emerging spatial practitioners to participate in our Open Call and to contribute to the design and construction of the Pavilions for the forthcoming Copenhagen Architecture Biennial 2025, September 18th to October 19th.

Slow Pavilion is a unique opportunity to create architectural forms that engage the public and explore innovative approaches to sustainable solutions in architecture, at central locations in the heart of Copenhagens Cultural Districts, at Søren Kierkegaard Plads and Gammel Strand.

‍Slow Down, the theme of Copenhagen Architecture Biennale 2025, investigates architecture as matters of time and means of slowing down overheated sites, cities, and societies. Cooling in the shadows of the great acceleration—a century of an unprecedented upsurge in population, global GDP, energy use and use of natural resources—we set out to imagine what a great deceleration of the global system might look like, feel like, and sound like.

Get a platform and connections to architects, professionals and experts. Help create awareness, sensorial experiences and an access point for architecture enthusiasts, citizens, tourists, and journalists from around the world visiting Copenhagen during Copenhagen Architecture Biennial 2025.

The architecture of the 21st century will be an architecture of the slow. For it’s really not about whether we slow down, nor if we need to. It’s about how slowness will arrive.

About the Open Call

We are seeking proposals for two pavilions to be located in the Cultural District, from emerging spatial practitioners based in the Nordic countries.

One will be installed at Søren Kierkegaard Plads, and one on Gammel Strand.

The pavilions must:

• Accommodate public programs and serve as information stands for the Biennial.
• Be sourced and constructed from recycled, regenerative and reusable materials, promoting a circular building approach and aim to be for zero waste.
• Reflect the theme ‘Slow Down’, both in concept and design.
• Modular and re-assemblable, allowing for transportation and storage, for relocation and reuse in collaboration with other regional Nordic cultural institutions.

Submission deadline: April 22 (midnight CET)

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