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Architects: CLP Architects
- Area: 20 m²
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:Jeremías González
Text description provided by the architects. This project, realized for the Archi<20 competition, consisted on proposing a pavilion of 20 m2 floor space to be constructed in a protected natural area in Muttersholtz, Alsace.
With a limited budget of 7000 Euro, the commission allowed us to seek for a precise and careful architecture. In this sense, our first intention was to create a building that could offer an experience of varied possibilities, using the least materials and formal recourses.
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This intention is translated into a structural system that performs various tasks: the possibility of light, shadow, ventilation and also to provide temporal storage space.
![L'observatoire / CLP Architects - Forest](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5018/ccab/28ba/0d5d/5d00/09e7/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1360952951)
Our second intention was to conceive an architecture that could enhance and diversify the relationship between the visitor of the pavilion and the surrounding environment.
![L'observatoire / CLP Architects - Forest](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5018/ccbb/28ba/0d5d/5d00/09ec/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1360952968)
The pavilion, then, performs as a medium that is both reduced and enhanced into an optical device. In an economic sense, the structure permits an open-plan interior, similar to a theatre stage: The interior space is reconstructed again and again with each visitor.
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Seen from the exterior, the pavilion tends to disappear: in the ambiguous nature of its formal limits, a seemingly ordinary object is revealed as a complex interplay of light, images, people and objects. The visitor is invited to reflect on this uneasiness.
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