LA REBELIÓN DE LA MACETA
RECONTEXTUALISING DOMESTIC ARTIFACTS IN AN URBAN MATTER
Competition entry for a temporary pavilion in Mexico City by BFFL.
An exploration of how an everyday domestic object can be recontextualised into an architectural system. From a distance, the pavilion appears as an abstract circular form within the urban fabric. Up close, its true nature is revealed: a constellation of locally produced ceramic flowerpots transformed through repetition, structure, and collective assembly.
Using only three basic configurations, the proposal creates seating, vegetation, spatial boundaries, and structural elements through a simple reversible system. What is usually perceived as ordinary becomes civic, spatial, and monumental. The pavilion embraces temporality fast to assemble, fully reversible, and leaving no trace behind. Its life continues beyond the installation, as each individual element returns to the city with a new purpose.
Architecture understood not as a fixed object, but as an open process of transformation.
Together with Batja Ferch
www.batjaferch.com
RECONTEXTUALISING DOMESTIC ARTIFACTS IN AN URBAN MATTER
Competition entry for a temporary pavilion in Mexico City by BFFL.
An exploration of how an everyday domestic object can be recontextualised into an architectural system. From a distance, the pavilion appears as an abstract circular form within the urban fabric. Up close, its true nature is revealed: a constellation of locally produced ceramic flowerpots transformed through repetition, structure, and collective assembly.
Using only three basic configurations, the proposal creates seating, vegetation, spatial boundaries, and structural elements through a simple reversible system. What is usually perceived as ordinary becomes civic, spatial, and monumental. The pavilion embraces temporality fast to assemble, fully reversible, and leaving no trace behind. Its life continues beyond the installation, as each individual element returns to the city with a new purpose.
Architecture understood not as a fixed object, but as an open process of transformation.
Together with Batja Ferch
www.batjaferch.com
