Venice pavilion

‘The original pavilion is executed in the Neo-Russian style, but for more than a century, the Neo-Russian style has come to mean something different. Venice often suffers from flooding, and here, as it happens, the modern Russian approach, stretched across a centuries-old layout, will come in handy. Why build dams when you can walk on water? Thanks to the national ability to adapt with modest means, the Russian pavilion will become a point of attraction for people during floods, like the driest place in Venice. Environmental friendliness, efficiency, simplicity as a pure sustainability. Wooden pallets and an electric pump which red hose, lowered down the stairs of the porch as red carpet, is both a physical and ideological link between the interior and exterior of the pavilion.’