The Polish Pavilion's exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, titled Lares and Penates: On Building a Sense of Security in Architecture, examines architecture's role in providing safety. The multidisciplinary team investigates individuals' interactions with space, focusing on emotional and rational aspects of building practices. The exhibition showcases traditional rituals, such as candle placement for storm protection, alongside contemporary safety features like emergency exits and alarms. It emphasizes the physicality of architectural elements, presenting them in ways that highlight their cultural significance and utilitarian functions. This approach aims to redefine how safety is perceived and integrated into architecture.
The Polish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale presents Lares and Penates: On Building a Sense of Security in Architecture, an exhibition that explores how architecture continues to function as a form of protection in an age marked by uncertainty.
Rather than focusing on architecture from the designer's perspective, the team investigates how individuals inhabit space and construct a sense of safety, responding to deep-seated fears, desires, and needs.
Examples include placing a candle in the window to protect against storms, hanging garlands at construction sites to prevent accidents, and using an ancient threshold to mark the passage between outside and inside.
Alongside these traditions, the exhibition turns attention to contemporary safety features such as emergency exits and fire alarms, reframing these components as tools through which safety is observed, managed, and maintained.
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