BEST INNOVATIVE DESIGN
PHILIPPINES PAVILION / VENICE BIENNALE 2021
The work of architects Sudarshan Khadka Jr and Alexander Eriksson Furunes has been in the spotlight since their projects for Haiyan Typhoon-struck Tacloban. Their method of design, especially for the lower income communities in the Philippines, involves engaging with the end users for their input on the drawing board. The design of the Emergency Services Facilities and Study Centers in Tacloban are successful because affected families were involved in every step until the last brick was put in place.
These two architects collaborated once, to design. This is rooted in a long Filipino tradition of neighbours looking out for one another, helping build homes for each other and being each other’s form of security. Within a , the home does not begin and end with one’s individual shelter but is an integral part of a whole.
