The world is somehow overflowing with pavilions in the meantime, especially with Expo 2020 Dubai’s innovative architectural installations. On another spot, a temporary brick pavilion that explores the characteristics of domestic architecture takes place in an old factory’s narrow passage in Spain.
Photography by Luis Diaz Diaz
Mexico-based architecture office PALMA and Madrid-based studio HANGHAR have collaborated to create a temporary brick pavilion and inserted it in the passage of the old Tobacco Factory of La Rioja in Spain. Dubbed ‘Types of Spaces’, the installation is created for Concéntrico, logroño?s International Festival of Architecture and Design.
Photography by Luis Diaz Diaz
‘Types of Spaces’ brick pavilion comprises a series of square rooms of 3.6 x 3.6 meters, forming a spatial procession of corridors and rooms of a domestic character, “reconstructing the emptiness” of the narrow and elongated passage. The thermo-clay bricks relate to the factory’s monumental red brick chimney in the background. Photography by Luis Diaz Diaz
These sort of programmatically generic but spatially specific spaces are built with 30x30cm thermo-clay bricks that give the project a familiar condition thanks to the use of material so typical of the collective imaginary.
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