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Marco Mazzotta

Marco Mazzotta

Lecce, IT

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Archivo Pavilion

We see the pavilion as the opportunity to generate an embryological experiment of new ways of interaction and relationship between architectural element, space and people. The concept of the pavilion starts from a box that later has been transformed through the fragmentation of its case, a gesture that refuses the pure element as an object and opens to deeper meanings. Through this gesture we manage to have an alternation of empty/full that dematerializes the border and increases the possibility of interaction. The openings create a continuity of the space erasing the separation between interior and exterior and the use of reflective material amplify the perception of the context by the fragmentation of the reality. Disorientation, illogic, ad ambiguity are overlapped to give to the user a surrealistic sensation that lets the pavilion be an experience. The fragmentation of the box disorients and disarms the user giving him altered views. Working with the border allows to create an empty space as flexible as possible in which the user is the protagonist. Structure and furniture are in this pavilion the same things, as well as the lighting and energy systems, underlining the strong connections between architecture and design.
The partitions act as storage where modular elements are placed. By the distribution of these modular elements the pavilion assumes different configuration according to the needs, creating an expansion of the pavilion in the garden where the modular elements contaminate the surrounding. In this way its aspect is always temporary. It is the user with his activity that provides a temporary state, a Polaroid of a moment where the architecture is the frame.
The pavilion is a clear state of what for us architecture should provide in our time, a flexible space where people are the actors and the architecture is simply the stage that should host feelings, activities, opportunity.

 
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Status: Competition Entry
Location: Mexico, MX
My Role: designer

 
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