Chrome clad
Reflective columns to impress the column is not holding the ‘floating’ roof.
original state (uncovered)
Galvanised steel bracket to keep right angle
Cruciform steel column.
Internal fixing to tightly connect marble panel to concrete structure
4 pieces of steel, fixed with screws.
Marble panel
construct for the exhibition; grand greetings
changes appreciated by visitors for a short time before reversion to the original state.
white plaster; homogenous material. Showcase modernity for a temporary exhibitive event.
*Similarly, other events of material changes also took place, with SANAA architects adding acrylic curtains in 2008, artist Ai Wei Wei filling pools with cafe latte, architect Andres Jaque furnishing the interior with objects stored in the hidden basement in 2013. In 2016, temporary steel columns were placed outside of the Pavilion, made from recycled steel drums, by architect Luis Martinez Santa-Maria, in celebration of Catalan monuments. The intent was to express the relationship between the industrial landscape and the beauty of time and age upon its materials.
In 1980, Oriol Bohigas, the head of the Urban Planning Department of Barcelona City Council,
ceremony & celebration occurs on site during the time of exhibition
Stucco Flashing
assigned reconstruction and redesign to architects Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Cristian Cirici and Fernando Ramos. Construction work began in 1983 and was reopened in 1986. The materials gave an essence of timelessness, possibly due to the temporal effects of reflecting light and colour off one another. The dynamism of the elements allowing the building to seem as though it transitioned its form slightly throughout the seasons and days. The state of
Salvaging materials; reconstruction. Later led to covering the marble with modern white ceramic panels, to preserve the ‘modernity’ of the interior (Bach, 2017).
LIFE CYCLE
council decision to disassemble the pavilion after the necessary use
the Pavilion is currently sustained by a re-modification of the interior, covering the original marbled walls and stucco with a protective white ceramic material. This was intended to Wall material (marble) fixing detail & column detail.
upkeep with the current trends of minimalism and modernity (Bach, 2017). Some consider the salvaged building as a “faithful replica” (Hosey, 2018). However it still allows for users of the modern day to experience mediated ranges of space, light and colour, in accordance to
international materials from Greece, local site. Was salvaged for reconstruction later.
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deconstruction in <1 year; short lifespan
the current generation they are in. Thus maintaining the standard of modernity it previously had before, despite catering for different needs of a past generation.
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