The Room is a 43 sqm triangular space surrounded by 4 meters-high walls. The walls are built in concrete blocks. The external surface of the walls is raw, the internal one is painted in light pink (RAL 3015). The Room has one circular entrance measuring 2 meters in diameter, and a smaller porthole measuring 60 centimeters placed 2,8 meters above the ground level. Both holes are realized with precast concrete elements, such as common sewage headwalls. If needed, the entrance of the Room can be closed by placing a couple of solid wood panels in front of it.
A room
Salottobuono and Enrico Dusi designed a temporary pavillion in Mexico City, considered a silent “fragment of desert” that holds the memory of the origin of the city.
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- 17 April 2017
- Mexico City
It includes certain things and excludes others: it separates an interior from an exterior space. It produces a small region where the urban pressure of Mexico City is both absorbed and provisionally suspended. Outside, the walls provide 120 sqm of total exhibition surface for the festival purposes. But they can also be painted, used to hold temporary structures, covered with advertisment, vandalized. Inside, a silent “fragment of desert” holds the memory of the origin of the city. It doesn’t suggest any specific activity, nor tries to forsee them. Its gentle slope is generous enough to accept the unpredictable.
A Room, Mexico City
Program: temporary pavilion
Architect: Salottobuono + Enrico Dusi Architecture – Matteo Ghidoni and Enrico Dusi
Collaborators: Arin Alia, Matteo Bassi, Roxani Maragkoudaki
Engineering consultant: Sinergo Spa
Construction: Factor Eficiencia
Competition: Arquine Competition, Mextrópoli festival
Area: 43 sqm
Completion: 2017