Temporary Pavilion for the ‘Bethlehem’ Municipal De Madrid – Gassz Architects
The assignment involves the creation of a temporary pavilion covered for the installation of a “Bethlehem” traditional, popular scenery depicting the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem. This has been commissioned by municipal by sculptor Jose Luis Mayo.
The pavilion stands free, and indicating the property, the sidewalk outside the new Town Hall of Madrid, showing facade to the Plaza de Cibeles.
The trapezoidal, with an area of ??65m2, is divided into two bands: a circulation of
The pavilion consists of a nave, which evokes the construction of a stable structure (space traditionally used as a shelter of the holy family), but its volume has been truncated from a series of operations: first turn the main facade, so left facing the Plaza de Cibeles and generates a collection area for access, the skirts of the gable roof, are asymmetric, with inclinations of 56 ° to Cybele, 30 ° to the City picking up the spatial interior, divided into two unequal bands, and finally descends the ridge line from the main facade of 6.5m, 5m to the rear, causing the inclination of both ledges.
In the traditional nativity scenes built in Spanish homes, usually performs a drill: This generally includes the construction of a landscape scenery, based on the use of two natural materials: moss and cork. The first is used to represent the grass, and cork to represent the rock (certainly not too faithful to the real landscape of Bethlehem 2 centuries ago)
Some natural materials, simulate other natural materials.
The pavilion to house the Bethlehem aims also be a contemporary simulation: artificial turf be used to simulate moss, and oriented strand board (OSB), simulates natural cork.
They are artificial and industrial materials, which simulate natural materials.
The pavilion designed to house a simulation, thus becomes a simulation of the simulation.
The outer surface of the pavilion is finished with a layer of artificial turf blankets 2m wide, composed of strands of polyethylene 4cm. Similarly, the inner surface is produced industrially board ends with resin-based and oriented strand board (OSB), bolted to a light beam lattice structure of steel tubing.
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