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Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has been appointed as artistic director for the Venice Architecture Biennale, which will focus on the “battles to be won” to improve quality of life within the built environment.

“There are several battles that need to be won and several frontiers that need to be expanded in order to improve the quality of the built environment and consequently people’s quality of life,” said Aravena, who is based in Santiago, Chile, and is best known for his work with his firm Elemental.

“This is what we would like people to come and see at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition: success stories worthy to be told and exemplary cases worthy to be shared where architecture did, is and will make a difference in those battles and frontiers,” he added.

The 15th annual architecture exhibition in Venice will be open to the public from 28 May to 27 November 2016 and occupy the Arsenale and Giardini venues in the east of the Italian city, as well as a number of smaller satellite spaces.

“The 15th International Architecture Exhibition will be about focusing and learning from architectures that through intelligence, intuition or both of them at the same time, are able to escape the status quo,” said Aravena. “We would like to present cases that, despite the difficulties, instead of resignation or bitterness, propose and do something. We would like to show that in the permanent debate about the quality of the built environment, there is not only a need but also room for action.”

Aravena’s approach is a sharp contrast to that of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale director, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, who chose to “disconnect from contemporary architecture” in favour of his research-focused Fundamentals theme for the event.

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“After the important experimental Biennale developed by Rem Koolhaas, dedicated entirely to the curator’s research, it is our belief that we must follow up with a Biennale that convenes the architects,” said Paolo Baratta, president of the Biennale.

Baratta said Aravena was the best architect of a new generation to examine the growing gap between architecture and social need.

“This Biennale intends to react once again to the gap between architecture and civil society, which in recent decades has transformed architecture into spectacle on the one hand, yet made it dispensable on the other,” he said. “Among architects of the new generation, Alejandro Aravena is, in our opinion, the one who can best describe this reality and highlight its vitality.”

Aravena, 48, is best known for his social housing work with Elemental – a “Do Tank” he founded in partnership with the Chilean Oil Company and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile to tackle social issues in South and Central America.

Elemental’s 2004 Quinta Monroy, a 93-home residential development in Chile created to provide houses for a community that had previously occupied the same site illegally, helped Aravena win the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Architect in the International Exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008. Based on traditional row houses, each building on the site was designed as a basic concrete structure, with a void incorporated to allow the residents to adapt and extend their homes themselves.

The firm’s monolithic concrete Innovation Center UC – Anacleto Angelini on the campus of the Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago, was named one of the 2015 Designs of the Year by London’s Design Museum.

Aravena also runs his own architecture firm, founded in 1994, and has previously been a professor at Harvard University and a juror for the Pritzker Prize – architecture’s most prestigious award.

His other projects include a viewpoint pavilion for the Mexican pilgrimage route La Ruta del Peregrino, a strap designed to wrap around the body of a sitting person and provide support without using a chair, and a prototype house at the Milan Triennale in 2008.

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The Osaka office of Nikken Sekkei’s interior design studio features a bookcase conceived as a “stand in a stadium” – the latest example of the trend for bookshelf staircases in both home and office interiors (+ slideshow).

Nikken Sekkei –  the Tokyo-based architecture firm best known for designing the world’s largest television tower, Tokyo Skytree – established Nikken Space Design in 1994 as its interior design department.

The studio already has offices in Tokyo, Nagoya and Shanghai. For its fourth office, in Osaka, the team decided to install a bleacher-style seating structure that faces floor-to-ceiling windows to offer views out over the city skyline.

“We set the bookshelf at the centre of the office, and aimed to create an environment where anyone can pick up a book at any time,” the designers told Dezeen.

“The staff can sit there to read, with the view from the high position making a change to their mood.”

Constructed from recycled scaffolding planks, the steps are hollow to store books and magazines. When looking for a publication, staff members are encouraged to clamber up the five-level structure.

“We realised the convenience of integrating bookshelves and seats to form stairs,” the designers explained. “The bookcase has been designed like a stand in a stadium. It is necessary to climb the bookshelf to find the book you want.”

Bleachers – high, deep steps suitable for sitting on that are more typically found in sports stadiums – are becoming popular in offices. Other staircases you can sit on can be found in the workspaces of Evernote, Fairphone and Eventbrite.

Seoul studio Moon Hoon also added a bleacher-style bookshelf that incorporates a wooden slide to a family house in South Korea, while Zminkowska De Boise Architects added a set of wide white steps with built-in book storage to a renovated London house.

Nikken Space Design’s workplace is intended to promote creativity and productivity, reflecting the way their staff like to work.

“Our new office needed to be a place that ensured more creativeness and higher productivity, and to do this we had to understand the nature of the staff members,” explained the designers.

Desks made from recycled plastic bottles are modelled on a “sushi roll shape” and shift around to allow project teams to move and sit together.

“We knew at an early designing stage that a fixed-desk layout wasn’t suitable for our style,” explained the designers. “The idea of making a highly uniform workspace did not fit the staff members.”

A long concrete bar runs throughout the middle of the office, while two more meeting rooms are situated in the back corner.

The Osaka office has been shortlisted for Interior of the Year at the Inside Awards 2015, along with an Australian hotel lobby staircase that has been enveloped in lengths of reclaimed timber.

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