Excerpt: Cotaparedes Arquitectos’ architectural design for the Avila Pavilion is a space with a capacity for 200 people, used to hold a range of events. The structure of the Pavilion was modulated using the standard measurements of the materials to be used, such as steel, aluminum, glass, and sheet cover, to be as environmentally conscious as possible while also making efficient use of the resources available to facilitate its execution.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The project is located in the garden of a rest house on the outskirts of the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco. The building had to function to host events of different purposes, with a capacity for 200 people.
By counting the site with a house and a terrace of traditional architecture, the Pavilion should seek to be as respectful of the environment as possible and at the same time be efficient with the resources to facilitate its execution, for which the structure was modulated using the Standard measurements of the materials to be used, such as steel, aluminum, glass, and sheet cover.
The structure was modulated to 3 mts, using columns of PTR type where they rest the armor that gives form to the cover. To make the wind circulate freely through space, the designers generate a gap in the roofs, which also helps with acoustics. The largest surface of the roof is oriented to the north and the smallest to the south. The roof flies 1.5m to the sides to protect from excess lighting as well as generate an “engawa” where the user can walk the pavilion and admire the gardens being “protected” by the architecture.
To generate the accesses, two stereotomic pieces were designed that resolve the kitchen and bathroom services and at the same time give them a formal character different from the lateral ones that seek to be as transparent as possible to integrate with the garden. The aesthetics of the accesses are framed by the gap play of the covers, made of white ribbed sheet prepared to reflect the heat as much as possible.
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