Tools for Architecture
Una casa in casa (on site)
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The architecture becomes the message
Text: Marta Atzeni Rather than designing a pavilion apart from the exhibition to be hosted at it, in the Charlie Hebdo Portable Pavilion architectural design merges with its educative content: the outcome is an immersive content machine produced by the active role of the users. In order to be both suitable in and related to any temporary location, the Pavilion is conceived as a transparent volume with a round shaped external perimeter: overlapping with its surroundings, the s tructure acts as a lens onto the landscape hence enabling an intimate visual connection between the users and the sites. Inside the circle, opaque blocks - easily dismantled and reassembled in different locations - articulate the space that accommodates the functional program requested by the brief: the reception, an advice and support office, a cafe, a gallery and a workshop, a conference room and additional exhibition spaces, all covered by a steel structure canopy. As part of the program, the...
