Miilu/At Work With Rintala Eggertsson Architects

At work with is a residency program taking place in the Nordic Pavilion during the 2010 Biennale. The project continues the Biennale theme "People meet in Architecture".

During the three months of the Biennale, twelve young and upcoming architectural practises from Finland, Sweden and Norway, are invited as hosts and caretakers of the Nordic Pavillion for one week. Each group will create their home office enviroment and develop their own unic combination of work and events.

Miilu is a wooden site specific installation next to the Nordic Pavilion, offering an informal meeting place for visitors in the Venice Biennale.
The name Miilu is Finnish and stands for an archaic wooden pile structure made to produce tar.
The work consists of layered sawn timber of different dimensions. The material becomes not only the structure, but also an interior space with benches, a decorative presentation of wood inspired by marble layers in Italian churches and Venetian blinds, plus finally a light installation during the evenings. Moreover, the idea behind the structural principle comes from the Nordic Pavilion beside.

At Work With is a project focusing on architecture as practise. Initiated by Economy (Tor Lindstrand) and Testbedstudio (Anders Johansson and Erik Wingquist), it takes the form of an office environment with a residency program during the three months in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. At Work With is conceived as a workspace for seminars, screenings, discussions, displays, practices, projects, meetings, modelling, projections, provocations, interactions, broadcasts, dreams, cooking and whims. Constructed as a continuous staging of meetings between practitioners and visitors, it is a working office as well as a social meeting point that emphasizes exchange and conversations about architecture. The project was commissioned by the Swedish Museum of Architecture.

Technical information:
Client: Swedish Museum of Architecture, Norwegian Museum of Architecture and Finnish Museum of Architecture
Curators: Karin Åberg Wærn, Eva Madshus, Kristiina Nivari, Anders Johanson / Testbedstudio and Tor Lindstad / Economy
Design: Rintala Eggertsson Architects – Sami Rintala, Dagur Eggertsson, Vibeke Jenssen, Kaori Watanabe and Ingrid Londono.
Footprint area: 4,0 m x 4,0 m = 16,0 m2
Height: 4,0 m
Materials: Wood – 6,16 m3
Sponsors: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign affairs / Norsk Form – travels and transportation costs
Building team: Chiara Cabrini, Michele Corno, Guglielmo Comini, Rathi Devi Easwaran, Dagur Eggertsson, Ingvild Eikefjord, Linda Johansson Folgero, Edoardo Giancola, Angelika Huebauer, Vibeke Jenssen, Leoni Hellen Kämmer, Elina Goksøyr Leine, Ingrid Londono, Celine Marchi, Paolo Mestriner, Sara Omassi, Espen Steinsvik Normann, Virgile Ponsoye, Audun Reinaas, Sami Rintala, Massimiliano Spadoni, Kaori Watanabe, Yeiri Yu, Frederico Zarattini.