Rehabilitation of the Pavilion of the Future

Our proposed project continues this exploration to some extent. The entire new program is gathered into a single luminescent volume—continuous yet articulated through folds and cuts—which occupies the vacant space in response to its required function, while also considering the altered void resulting from its insertion into the large pavilion container. The entire volume is clad in translucent polycarbonate, providing interior brightness and unifying the material expression of the new construction. This new volume interacts with different ceiling heights of the original space, climbing onto existing structures and, through a longitudinal fold, creates an interior street that organizes circulation—more private on one side and more public on the brighter flank.

In section, the floors do not align and the ceiling heights vary, a result of architecture inserted into a vacant structure, creating a third space—an in-between realm between the embracing pavilion and the new volume, dense and sculpted, which becomes a new landscape to be observed through reciprocal views in the absence of relationships with the exterior. Only in the multipurpose room—reimagined in our proposal as a shared meeting space where the interior street expands into a true lobby—is the original enclosure cut open to offer views toward the surroundings of La Cartuja Island, a place full of memories for the city and still awaiting a better future.