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2018 PABELLON DEL AGUA

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PABELLON DEL AGUA

permanent pavilion along the Ecoducto, Mexico City, 2018

 

The PABELLON DEL AGUA is a rather conventional metal structure framing a deck suspended 3 meters above the street level. The covered space below the deck hosts a bunch of independent objects made of bricks. At the upper level, an 80 m2 free-plan space expands into an enclosed garden. The two levels are connected by a spiral staircase occupying a central position. Its blue-tiled cylindrical volume is the only object that perforates the deck.

 

The PABELLON DEL AGUA is a bold and realistic proposal both in terms of budget, technical feasibility and use: no detail sophistication, no formal or structural virtuosity are implied, but the attempt to produce the most generous collective space. Its full capacity can be reached through steps of progressive occupation: it can start as a simple terrace, and then sectors of it can be closed and become parts of a large room. The room can be easily subdivided to host more activities at the same time, or perform as a whole exhibition space with a continuous circulation.

 

Rather than trying to reconnect to the city, the PABELLON DEL AGUA reinforces a condition of detachment, providing an intimate and contemplative place just in the middle of the metropolitan chaos. The relationship with the Ecoducto is both visual and emotional: the permeability of the ground floor ensures a visual connection and an uninterrupted experience of the ecological path. The fragment of nature trapped above the concrete island becomes the place for radical experimentation waiting for the new urban Robinson Crusoe.

 

international competition

in collaboration with: Juan Benavides

client: Arquine

team: Chiara Crisà

surface: 90 sqm

photos: Louis De Belle

 

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Salottobuono is an architectural office based in Milan, directed by Matteo Ghidoni.

 

The studio’s work ranges from urban design to architecture, from temporary installations to exhibition design. Salottobuono is also constantly engaged in research, publishing and teaching activities. Always active in the international arena, the studio is currently in charge of developing public space and landscape redevelopment projects on behalf of several Italian administrations. Salottobuono relies on the collaboration of a network of specialists for the development of all phases of the project in its structural, plant engineering, economic and site management aspects. It also collaborates with consultants on landscape and environmental sustainability issues.

 

Matteo Ghidoni obtained his Master Degree in architecture at IUAV Faculty of Architecture in Venice in 2002. He was a founding partner of the research agency Multiplicity from 2002 to 2006. His work with Multiplicity was exhibited at Kunstwerke in Berlin (2003), the Venice Biennale (2003), the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (2003), the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2004) and the Beijing Biennial (2004).

 

Ghidoni founded the architectural office Salottobuono in 2007. Salottobuono has served as editor of the Instructions and Manuals section of Abitare magazine
(2007-10) and as creative director of Domus magazine (2011, 2012). The office has taken part in the Venice Biennale (2008, 2012, 2014), and designed the Italian Pavilion in 2010. Salottobuono published the Manual of Decolonization (2010) and Fundamental Acts (2016).

 

Matteo Ghidoni is currently Visiting Lecturer at the MIT Department of Architecture and Adjunct Professor at Politecnico in Milan. He taught design studios at the Faculty of Architecture in Genova, at IUAV Faculty of Architecture in Venice, the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotà. He has given guest lectures at several schools and institutions including the Berlage Institute, Berkeley, TU Wien, Vlaams Architectuurinstituut in Antwerp, Columbia University and USoA Miami. He has been studio leader at the Venice Studio organized by the Melbourne School of Architecture and at the Porto Academy hosted at FAUP.

 

In 2014 he was invited by Rem Koolhaas, director of the Venice Biennale, to participate in the Monditalia section with the research project Ground Floor Crisis. Among the recent projects designed and built by Ghidoni there are the winning proposal for a temporary restaurant for the 25th Biennale Interieur in Kortrjik, Belgium (2016), the pavilion for the Mèxtropoli Festival in Mexico City (2017), the e-flux pavilion for the Milano ArchWeek (2018), the new Urban Center for the city of Milan (2019) and the new addition to the Venice Casino in Ca’ Noghera (2020). His project for the market square of Sant’Agostino (Ferrara), designed in collaboration with Enrico Dusi and completed in 2020, has been awarded the prestigious Gubbio Prize as the best national intervention on an area of historical interest.

 

Since 2010, Ghidoni has been co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of San Rocco, an independent international publication about architecture. The editors of San Rocco were received the Icon Award in 2012 as the best emerging architecture practice. In 2012 and 2013, the magazine was awarded two grants from the Graham Foundation.