AFAB(Aitor Frías+Joaquin Perailes)+Montse Solano
Is a line with a special geometry. It is a pavilion capable of adapting to the Largo de São João square in a particular way, and generating all new ways of walking and inhabiting it. It is a pavilion with a tower from the square, and a lighthouse from the city.
“The Thin Thing” is committed to a double concept: to build a pavilion, but at the same time, to develop an urban activator from different scales. The strategy defines a pavilion that is not identified only with the archetypal idea of central space. The pavilion now can be extended. The initial building – tower and bar – will be the great support point of a much lighter and more flexible element – the arcade – that crosses the square, and ends in the stage space and the final room.
“The Thin Thing” is, therefore, a hybrid intervention. From the architecture it is able to define new precise and significant spaces, such as a tower, that give the pavilion adequate presence. From the urban, the pavilion configures the square in different specific areas: giving value to what already exists and the relationship between the elements. Thus, each part of the project invades a specific point and influences a particular area. The result is a pavilion and an active square. An artistic, social and cultural activator.
“The Thin Thing” is not only a unit building. The pavilion is also an abstract and minimal space, developed from the material logic of wood. The pavilion is also the reinterpretation, from an ephemeral architecture, of other significant archetypes.
“The Thin Thing” is a pavilion, but it is also a tower-house-arcade-patio-door, capable of pursuing spatial complexity.
“The Thin Thing” is a line with a special geometry. It is a pavilion capable of adapting to the Largo de São João square in a particular way, and generating all new ways of walking and inhabiting it. It is a pavilion with a tower from the square, and a lighthouse from the city.
“The Thin Thing” is committed to a double concept: to build a pavilion, but at the same time, to develop an urban activator from different scales. The strategy defines a pavilion that is not identified only with the archetypal idea of central space. The pavilion now can be extended. The initial building – tower and bar – will be the great support point of a much lighter and more flexible element – the arcade – that crosses the square, and ends in the stage space and the final room.
“The Thin Thing” is, therefore, a hybrid intervention. From the architecture it is able to define new precise and significant spaces, such as a tower, that give the pavilion adequate presence. From the urban, the pavilion configures the square in different specific areas: giving value to what already exists and the relationship between the elements. Thus, each part of the project invades a specific point and influences a particular area. The result is a pavilion and an active square. An artistic, social and cultural activator.
“The Thin Thing” is not only a unit building. The pavilion is also an abstract and minimal space, developed from the material logic of wood. The pavilion is also the reinterpretation, from an ephemeral architecture, of other significant archetypes.
“The Thin Thing” is a pavilion, but it is also a tower-house-arcade-patio-door, capable of pursuing spatial complexity.
Authosr: AFAB(Aitor Frías+Joaquin Perailes)+Montse Solano.
Website: www.afabarchitecture.com
Location: Azores, Portugal.
Year: 2019
Competition: WALK & TALK PAVILION 2020.