We created the pavilion “Domino 3.0 / Generated Living Structure” at Venice Architecture Biennale 2025.
This pavilion was created at the Arsenale venue as a Special Project selected by the curator.
We are participating in this international exhibition as a joint team of SEKISUI HOUSE – KUMA LAB + Kengo Kuma & Associates + Matsuo-Iwasawa LAB UTokyo + Ejiri Structural Engineers.
The pavilion will be exhibited on-site from May 10, 2025, to November 23, 2025.
For the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition 2025, held under the overarching theme of AI, we presented Domino 3.0: a house to return to the forest.
The material was timber from trees uprooted and devastated by Storm Vaia in October 2018 — trees left to decay on the forest floor.
Each fallen tree was fully 3D-scanned, then reassembled with the assistance of AI to integrate seamlessly into the natural environment while maintaining structural integrity.
Soft joints — flexible, responsive to movement, and freely transformable — were created using 3D printing and embedded into the branches. These allowed the trees to be gently interconnected, forming a living, adaptive structure.
The project attempts to question society by using actual trees to propose that cutting-edge technology does not exist to keep humans away from nature but enables humans to return to nature.
Kengo Kuma
“Domino 3.0 / Generated Living Structure” Design Team
The University of Tokyo, SEKISUI HOUSE – KUMA LAB
Kengo Kuma, Toshiki Hirano, Ryo Saito, Jiro Akita, Nozomu Sudo, Shutaro Matsuura
Kengo Kuma Architects and Associates
Minoru Yokoo, Ryo Saito
Matsuo – Iwasawa Lab
Yutaka Matsuo, Sota Matsuzawa, Takuma Nozawa, Naoto Oyama, Yuki Murakami, Kazunari Wada
Ejiri Structural Engineers
Norihiro Ejiri, Haruka Fugane
Photo：© Nils Koenning
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