Permanently Temporary Pavilion

Permanently Temporary Pavilion 

KOSMOS Architects + PARABASE

Permanently Temporary Pavilion
Pavilion Rendering

CATEGORY
Educational Architecture

AREA
30 M²

PHOTOGRAPHS
Laurian Ghinițoiu, Gorokastudio

PROJECT ARCHITECTS/DESIGNERS
Leonid Slonimskiy, Artem Kitaev, Blanca Garcia Gardelegui

PROJECT ARCHITECTS
Carla Ferrando Costansa, Pablo Garrido Arnaiz

LOCATION
Spain

YEAR
2023

Permanently Temporary Pavilion
© Laurian Ghinițoiu

KOSMOS X PARABASE architectural studios collaborate on the composition of Permanently Temporary - the winning proposal for the Model Festival of Architecture that was held in Barcelona.

It is built out of borrowed, unused materials that were found at multiple storages and construction/demolition sites in the municipality of Barcelona and brought to the city center.

Permanently Temporary Pavilion
© Laurian Ghinițoiu
Permanently Temporary Pavilion
© GorokaStudio

The installation reveals the city's hidden resources and visualizes the potential of circularity as a response to the environmental impact of the construction industry.

The installation has a double overlapping programme: it serves as a central storage for materials, while at the same time as a public space, proposing a new metropolitan logistics centre for the reuse of materials.

Permanently Temporary Pavilion
© Laurian Ghinițoiu
Permanently Temporary Pavilion
© GorokaStudio

Storage of construction materials in the city is seen as a permanent temporary urban condition.

Components are revealed to the public during the festival: put together in tall, impressive vertical totems, serving as a structure for the pavilion, as well as the symbols of their source: storage facilities in Barcelona’s periphery.

Permanently Temporary Pavilion
© Laurian Ghinițoiu
Permanently Temporary Pavilion
© Laurian Ghinițoiu

All of those usually and quotidian materials, when brought together, create a rich architectural space open to the citizens who are invited to exchange materials: take the ones they find in the pavilion and bring their own. The pavilion space also works as a workshop and as an information point, a place for debates.

The Permanently Temporary installation speaks about the circular life of materials and their future reuse.

Permanently Temporary Pavilion
© Laurian Ghinițoiu
Permanently Temporary Pavilion
© Laurian Ghinițoiu

Components that are not be permanently assembled, glued, welded, cut or transformed will come together as an array of separate elements and brought back to the storages after the festival, leaving the possibility of future reuse and many new lives and constructions.


Permanently Temporary Pavilion
Pavilion Elements
Permanently Temporary Pavilion
Pavilion Structure