The Clay Pavillion

The Clay Pavillion
© João Morgado

The Clay Pavillion

Alvaro Siza + Baaq'

ARCHITECTS
Alvaro Siza, Baaq'

LEAD ARCHITECT
Alvaro Siza Viera

CONSTRUCTION
Mario Conde

PALAPAS
David Jiménez

LOCAL ARCHITECT (ARCHITECTURE)
J. Alfonso Quiñones

LOCAL TEAM
Inca Hernández, Itzae Carrasco, Alfonso Sodi

LEAD ARCHITECT IN PORTO
Clemente Meineres

STRUCTURE DESIGN
Alfonso Sodi

PROJECT FACILITIES
Heriberto Carmona

CONSTRUCTION LEADER
José Ramírez

CARPENTRY
Javier Gomez

PHOTOGRAPHS
João Morgado

AREA
140 m²

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Puerto Escondido, Mexico

CATEGORY
Pavilion

The Clay Pavillion
© João Morgado
The Clay Pavillion
© João Morgado

Part of Casa Wabi's foundation mission is to encourage, and generate knowledge and new skills in the children in the region.

The Clay Pavillion
© João Morgado
The Clay Pavillion
© João Morgado

Casa Wabi's staff identified that teaching the technique and the process for handling clay would be a very positive tool for the community since this is a technique that has been taught for generations.

Thanks to this initiative, Casa Wabi invited Architect Alvaro Siza to design a pavilion for teaching the handling of this material.

The project is centered on a main "Palapa" (a building with a palm roof), where the modeling of the material is taught, and the pieces resulting from the workshops are exhibited, it also has storage, a sanitary building, and an oven.

The Clay Pavillion
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The Clay Pavillion
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The entire program is contained within a brick wall in a half-circle shape enclosing a patio for the clay oven.

The main Palapa is 7m high, including a 6x2m apparent concrete table, ideal for manual work.

The Clay Pavillion
© João Morgado
The Clay Pavillion
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The curved brick wall is eight meters in diameter, and jointly with another L-shaped wall, it creates two rooms to store ceramic and clay tools.

The construction was made with annealed red bricks, these bricks have special measures, to be able to fulfill their structural work.

The Clay Pavillion
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The Clay Pavillion
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A "palapa" covers the space and its shape resembles that of medieval structures made of wood in Europe.


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The Clay Pavillion
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The Clay Pavillion
Detail circular wall
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Detail wood shelves
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Detail concrete washing basin
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Detail storage building


The Clay Pavillion
Plan - sections - elevations
The Clay Pavillion
Plan - sections - elevations of sanitary building


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Perspective
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General plan


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Elevation
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Axonometric detail