YR Pavilion / elton_léniz + Cruz-Mandiola

YR Pavilion / elton_léniz + Cruz-Mandiola

Textual content description offered by the architects. The YR Pavilion is an uncommon mission. A pair – each artwork collectors – wish to develop their backyard with the purpose of making a small personal park. To do that, they annex a brand new plot of land subsequent to the prevailing home, which should embody a “Folie”, a liveable sculpture composed of three installations: a therapeutic massage room, an area for train, and a rest room. The brand new object have to be a part of the prevailing sculpture assortment, along with permitting for the respective capabilities.

The extension of the park, with its centennial timber, obliges us to watch out with orientation and placement choices. Initially, three round crystalline kinds are proposed, composed of an inside pores and skin of glass bricks, with an outer pores and skin of concrete bricks.

Secondly, they’re prolonged and intersected to kind two giant volumes: on one facet, an remoted therapeutic massage room, and on the opposite, the train house and the lavatory. 4 varieties of concrete brick had been designed to permit for the whole configuration of the outside envelope, needed to manage photo voltaic radiation and supply privateness to every of the areas. The steel construction is hidden between each layers and helps all of the bricks, forming a collaborative system through which all of the items take part.

The mission is conceived as an “Integral Work of Artwork”, a chance to design and manufacture every of the weather that make it up: Concrete Bricks, Air flow Grilles, Sinks, Management Panels, Doorways, Bronze Handles, Basalt Benches, Acoustic Ceilings, Perimeter Lighting {Hardware}, and Flooring, amongst others.

This merely inhabitable sculpture of 45 m2 seems as a inflexible and monolithic block in the course of the day however permits oblique gentle to enter by the offset between every brick. At dusk, it turns into fragile and slender, and the inside gentle is projected towards the outside, illuminating the backyard that accompanies it. Its development understood as a craft course of, is the results of the intersection between Structure, Sculpture, and Artwork.