Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers

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Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers

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  • Project Name: Pavilion in the Garden
  • Practice: Spaceworkers
  • Completion year: 2022
  • Gross Built up Area: 490 m2
  • Project Location: Paredes
  • Country: Portugal
  • Lead Architects/Designer: henrique marques, rui dinis
  • Design Team: Marco Santos, Inês Pinto, Adriana Pacheco, Filipe Torre, Joana Leitão, Fred Delgado, Tiago Maciel
  • Clients: Private
  • Interior + Furniture: spaceworkers
  • Photo Credits: Fernando Guerra
  • Others: Financial director: carla duarte - cfo
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Excerpt: Pavilion in the Garden by Spaceworkers is a project that transcends the limits of simple physical construction. The design combines modernist and minimalist elements, with each element serving a specific purpose, to create a beautiful and functional space. It emphasizes the importance of integrating humans with the natural environment, aiming to create a perfect symbiosis between architecture and the exterior.

Project Description

Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
© Fernando Guerra

[Text as submitted by architect] This project transcends the limits of simple physical construction. It is a philosophical manifestation that seeks to establish a harmonious dialogue between humans, nature, and architecture. The central idea of this project is the pursuit of essence, purity of elements, and simplicity.

Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
© Fernando Guerra
Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
Elevation © Spaceworkers
Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
Axonometric © Spaceworkers
Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
© Fernando Guerra

The composition of pure volumes reveals a kind of modernist and minimalist “quotation,” where each element has a precise purpose and contributes to the beauty and functionality of the space. The relationship with the surroundings and the garden is essential to this proposal, as it aims to integrate humans with the natural environment, creating a perfect symbiosis between architecture and the exterior.

Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
© Fernando Guerra
Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
© Fernando Guerra

The large glass windows play a crucial role in this relationship. They both enclose the space, creating a sense of protection and security, and extend it to the exterior, allowing nature and light to freely permeate, establishing an intimate connection between the interior and the exterior.

Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
© Fernando Guerra
Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
Section © Spaceworkers
Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
© Fernando Guerra

The two enclosed blocks house the programmed functions of services and guest support. The seemingly heavy concrete roof defies gravity by balancing on the base volumes and a tangential vertical element, functioning as a pillar/compositional element that supports the entire structure.

Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
© Fernando Guerra

This roof, a concrete grid with glass openings, explores a transcendental dimension by bringing the sky into the architecture, thereby contributing to making an apparently heavy element light.

Pavilion in the Garden | Spaceworkers
© Fernando Guerra

At the end, the project can be summarized by its ultimate purpose: to be a stage for the events that will take place there. It is an architecture that attempts to transcend matter, inviting users to experience simplicity, purity, and integration with nature, which are the fundamental elements here.

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