YR Pavilion / elton_léniz + Cruz-Mandiola



Textual content material description supplied by the architects. The YR Pavilion is an unusual endeavor. A pair – every paintings collectors – want to extend their yard with the intention of constructing a small private park. To try this, they annex a model new plot of land subsequent to the current dwelling, which ought to embrace a “Folie”, a habitable sculpture composed of three installations: a therapeutic therapeutic massage room, an space for prepare, and a bathroom. The model new object need to be part of the current sculpture assortment, together with allowing for the respective capabilities.



The extension of the park, with its centennial timber, obliges us to be careful with orientation and placement picks. Initially, three spherical crystalline varieties are proposed, composed of an inside pores and pores and skin of glass bricks, with an outer pores and pores and skin of concrete bricks.



Secondly, they’re extended and intersected to kind two big volumes: on one side, an isolated therapeutic therapeutic massage room, and on the alternative, the prepare home and the bathroom. 4 types of concrete brick had been designed to allow for the general configuration of the surface envelope, essential to handle picture voltaic radiation and provide privateness to each of the areas. The metallic development is hidden between every layers and helps the entire bricks, forming a collaborative system whereby the entire objects participate.


The endeavor is conceived as an “Integral Work of Paintings”, a chance to design and manufacture each of the climate that make it up: Concrete Bricks, Air circulate Grilles, Sinks, Administration Panels, Doorways, Bronze Handles, Basalt Benches, Acoustic Ceilings, Perimeter Lighting {{Hardware}}, and Flooring, amongst others.

This merely inhabitable sculpture of 45 m2 appears as a rigid and monolithic block by way of the day nonetheless permits indirect delicate to enter by the use of the offset between each brick. At nightfall, it turns into fragile and slender, and the within delicate is projected in the direction of the surface, illuminating the yard that accompanies it. Its constructing understood as a craft course of, is the outcomes of the intersection between Construction, Sculpture, and Paintings.


