Half Void / Full Moon Pavilion
HALF VOID / FULL MOON PAVILION
Piovenefabi
ARCHITECT
Ambra Fabi, Giovanni Piovene, Marco Ghetti
MANUFACTURERS
Reprocentro, Zeppelin Santiago
TEXTILES
Reprocentro
PHOTOGRAPHS
Andrea Consonni e Giuseppe Greppi, Associates Architecture
AREA
350 m²
YEAR
2022
LOCATION
Logroño, Spain
CATEGORY
Installations & Structures
Text description provided by architect.
HALF VOID FULL MOON is a 3 km long path, leaving the city center of Logrono across the Stone Bridge and winding through the nearest countryside.
It touches, in order of appearance: the city cemetery and crematorium, a carpet of collective orchards, scattered bushes and rocks, two hostels for peregrines with public seats, a big shed, vineyards, and bushes again.
A series of out-scaled flags mark the road up to the peak of Mount Cantabria – a natural terrace overlooking the river Ebro and the city.
Again, up there, we find mainly rocks and bushes, among which we find an archaeological site soon to be restored and a few infrastructural monuments – most probable water tanks for the city of Logrono.
On the satellite view appear some perfect circles carved out of the sand, possible traces of car drifting – tangible memories of the desired freedom.
We understood Mount Cantabria as a destination for nordic walkers, quick tourists, peregrines, car drifters, bikers, and ravers.
With a simple act, we want to formalize this destination, giving it the form of a shared inclined platform.
A wooden amphitheater supports personal experiences as collective ones. Its size allows distance, and its shape assures collectivity.
On it, we can look at the sunset or get asleep under a carpet of stars.
A simple roof provides shelter from the weather, while an inflatable helium balloon marks the site from a distance and diffuses a gentle light over the esplanade. The half void is our way to inhabit the wilderness around Logroño.
From the city, the full moon, as a beacon, signals something is waiting uphill.
