making heimat
in the German Pavilion, the German Architecture Museum (DAM) realized the exhibition "Making Home" at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition 2016 - La Biennale di Venezia. Germany, Arrival Country. four large openings, for which more than 48 tons of bricks from the listed walls were broken, turned the German Pavilion into an open house. the idea for the German contribution to the architecture biennial was developed during the turbulent weeks and months of autumn 2015, when thousands of refugees arrived at the train stations every day, and the Chancellor insisted that there should be no upper limit for their reception. "We can do it." six months later, after the end of the Biennale, the openings were re-walled
