Inbetween Pavilion

Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes

INBETWEEN PAVILION

Pontoatelier

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures, Pavilion, Historic Preservation

LOCATION
Portugal

AREA
400 m²

ARCHITECTS
Pontoatelier

YEAR
2020

PHOTOGRAPHS
 Mariana Lopes

MANUFACTURERS
Archicad, Basalt Stones, Crytomeria wood

ARQUITETOS RESPONSAVEIS
Ana Pedro Ferreira + Pedro Maria Ribeiro

COMISSAO
walk&Talk festival

CONSULTORES
Luis Brum

CONSTRUTORES
Luis Brum, Mário Medeiros, Rúben Monfort e António Silva

Text description provided by architect.

The pavilion is designed and built at a time when the world changes, responding to a collective space, when we cannot meet. We start from the matter of the place.

Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes
Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes

Cryptomeria wood and volcanic stone. It is through this volcanic matter that a metric of distance and / or approximation is defined. A measure of this time.

An open-air room is designed, where the experience of the land and the design of the sky are intended. A boundary drawn in a square with four entrances stipulating the rule of a regular grid of 2mx2m.

Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes
Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes

In the place of vibrant vegetation, 25 volcanic rocks are placed, aligned with the axis of the structure under a volcanic pavement that defines the perimeter of the intervention.

The boundary that surrounds this “volcanic carpet” is made of local wood, Japanese-origin Cryptomeria.

Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes
Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes

This gains the structure and shape of a half “Cafuão” (wooden structure for drying corn or tobacco), a structure that emerges from the ground and tilts under the sky.

The project is drawn on the geometry of a 20m x 20m square. The metric that defines its dimension is composed by the repetition of 2m by 2m creating the measure of distance between the structure.

Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes
Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes

From this volcanic environment, the matter of Fire arises almost as a constructive matter. On the one hand in the volcanic constitution, on the other hand in a method of wood conservation through the use of a Japanese technique Shou Sugi Ban.

This wooden structure will be burned and the pavilion takes on a black atmosphere, which contains an interior / exterior experience in opposition to its green location.

Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes
Inbetween Pavilion

Time is also the builder of this piece, through a slow and inverse process. (From the outside in). The wood will disappear and only the stones will be left imprinting a new time in this territory.


Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes
Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes
Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes
Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes
Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes
Inbetween Pavilion
© Mariana Lopes

Inbetween Pavilion
Site Plan
Inbetween Pavilion
Floor Plan


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