Mountain, woven pavilion
Barcelona, 2013
"Mountain" proposes an alternative way of thinking, materially and aesthetically, about the collective through experimentation with woven construction systems that allow direct participation in both the design and construction of the architecture.
The pavilion consists of a 16-square-meter space reminiscent of the orography of a mountain. This kind of shape; timeless, generic, and trans geographic, allows to focus all the attention of the pavilion on the enclosure, as well as in plan, thanks to its irregular shape allows the space, despite its small surface, to be capable of generating different types of places promoting free appropriation by of the users.
The white envelope, characteristic of the pavilion, is formed through a basic braid from 14 rows of hexagons that cover the entire volume. each type of hexagon (one per row), is designed and manufactured by each of the students who participated in the construction of the pavilion by cutting, folding, and sewn from a foam fabric, generating a common and collective final identity from 14 individual identities still so recognizable.
Seeking construction systems open to "non-expert" participation together with the development of proposals of an experiential nature can help to renew “the participatory” in architecture while leaving the door open for the introduction of other less disciplinary and more authentically democratic aesthetics.
The pavilion consists of a 16-square-meter space reminiscent of the orography of a mountain. This kind of shape; timeless, generic, and trans geographic, allows to focus all the attention of the pavilion on the enclosure, as well as in plan, thanks to its irregular shape allows the space, despite its small surface, to be capable of generating different types of places promoting free appropriation by of the users.
The white envelope, characteristic of the pavilion, is formed through a basic braid from 14 rows of hexagons that cover the entire volume. each type of hexagon (one per row), is designed and manufactured by each of the students who participated in the construction of the pavilion by cutting, folding, and sewn from a foam fabric, generating a common and collective final identity from 14 individual identities still so recognizable.
Seeking construction systems open to "non-expert" participation together with the development of proposals of an experiential nature can help to renew “the participatory” in architecture while leaving the door open for the introduction of other less disciplinary and more authentically democratic aesthetics.
Architects:
TAKK, Mireia Luzárraga + Alejandro Muiño
Client:
Esarq-UIC, School of Architecture
Photo:
José Hevia, Takk
TAKK, Mireia Luzárraga + Alejandro Muiño
Client:
Esarq-UIC, School of Architecture
Photo:
José Hevia, Takk
