Disconnected Pavilion designed by Plan B Arquitectos, This was a small commission to design a pavilion for a construction fair in Medellín and to make the project more interest for us, we proposed to the client and promoters, a series of conditions: The project must be built with donated materials from the different participant companies of the fair and put together as a mix of the same size panel distributed all over the façades, which must be able to move according to the sun orientation or the bioclimatic strategies. This material must have some bioclimatic or sustainable qualities or be affordable. (Due to the amount of companies interest in participating these terms were not always completed). The pavilion must be disassembled and donated to a low-income community or neighborhood in the city to function as a community space for all kinds of events. The building shouldn?t be completely closed; it must let the airflow from the outside to avoid using mechanical acclimatization systems. Of course, this fact can carry some inconvenient but from our point of view, they are minimum for Medellin weather: Some little access to horizontal rain inside the pavilion, and not optimum acoustic conditions.
The interior space of this pavilion is ambiguous and flexible: during the construction fair, the cube allows us to give some lectures, commercial product launches, and different kinds of meetings. During its second life as a community space, it could work as an open space for cel...