The Clay Pavillion / Alvaro Siza + BAAQ'

The Clay Pavillion / Alvaro Siza + BAAQ’

Textual content description offered by the architects. A part of Casa Wabi’s basis mission is to encourage, and generate data and new abilities within the youngsters within the area.

Casa Wabi’s employees recognized that instructing the approach and the method for dealing with clay could be a really constructive device for the neighborhood since it is a approach that has been taught for generations. Due to this initiative, Casa Wabi invited Architect Alvaro Siza to design a pavilion for instructing the dealing with of this materials.

The challenge is centered on a major “Palapa” (a constructing with a palm roof), the place the modeling of the fabric is taught, and the items ensuing from the workshops are exhibited, it additionally has storage, a sanitary constructing, and an oven. 

The whole program is contained inside a brick wall in a half-circle form enclosing a patio for the clay oven.

The primary Palapa is 7m excessive, together with a 6x2m obvious concrete desk, supreme for guide work. The curved brick wall is eight meters in diameter, and collectively with one other L-shaped wall, it creates two rooms to retailer ceramic and clay instruments.

The development was made with annealed purple bricks, these bricks have particular measures, to have the ability to fulfill their structural work. A “palapa” covers the area and its form resembles that of medieval buildings made from wooden in Europe.