After announcing participation in this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, the Vatican has recently released more details on their Holy See pavilion. The project is officially titled Vatican Chapels, featuring ten chapels commissioned from architects in ten different countries. Each structure will be realized in a forest on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, located opposite of St. Mark's Square. This wooded location serves as a space for silence and meditation as visitors journey through each structure. 

The Vatican stated these ten chapels are meant to reference the ten commandments. Apart from this connection and each structure containing a pulpit and altar, the chapels will be completely unique and up to the participant's interpretation of the project. However, as a guide the Church has encouraged each architect to respond to themes explored in the preliminary Asplund Pavilion. 

Asplund Pavilion, designed by MAP Studio, will serve as an initial space for visitors before they head out to each of the ten chapels. This structure will house an exhibition of drawings featuring Gunnar Asplund's Woodland Chapel, a structure built in 1920 by the Swedish architect for Stockholm Cemetery. 

Design proposals from the ten participants have yet to be released.