CLJ02: Pavilion ZA11 The story of combining avant-garde techniques with a small budget

The project started as a student initiative to design and fabricate, in 1:1 scale, the representative pavilion for the 2011 Architecture Days event - Vorbim Arhitectură - in Cluj, Romania. The project succeeds in combining the duality of an integration in a strong historical context with a representational power in which its main purpose is also found: to draw the general public's attention to the event. The object itself attempts to communicate the new paradigm defined by computational architecture and is representative of the processes behind it. At the same time, on a functional level, the pavilion provides a permeable and at the same time protected space for the realization of different social events attached to the architecture festival.

Read the full text in 3 / 2011 of Arhitectura Magazine.

The project started out as an ambitious student-powered endeavor to design and fabricate at a 1:1 scale the flagship pavilion for the ZA11 Speaking Architecture event in Cluj, Romania. While at the same time integrating into its historically-charged context, the design boasts a strong representational power which was much needed in order to fulfill its main goal: attracting passers-by to the event. The object tries to make legible the new ontology which is slowly defined by computational architecture and is a showcase for the processes empowered by it. At the same time, the pavilion offers a sheltered space for the unfolding of different social events pertaining to the corresponding architecture festival.

Read the full text in the print magazine.

Patrick Bedarf, Dimitrie Ștefănescu, Georgiana Macovei, Daniel Bondas