Cempasúchil Pavilion

Cempasúchil Pavilion
Edgar García + Rui Ortiz

Cempasúchil Pavilion

The pavilion emerged from the need to create a temporary structure capable of providing shade and shelter over a four-day period. Conceived as a place for gathering, it is organized around a single shared table where different groups of people meet throughout the day, encouraging informal encounters and collective occupation. Beyond its functional requirements, the project explores architecture as a temporary act of spatial organization.

photo_credit Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
photo_credit Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
photo_credit Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
photo_credit Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
Edgar García + Rui Ortiz

Set within a rural pasture, the project draws directly from its surroundings. Straw bales, ordinarily used as feed for the horses and mares that inhabit the site, become the conceptual foundation of the pavilion. The project proposes that an object's identity is not determined by its material condition, but by the intention through which it is used. Arranged around a shared table, the straw bales cease to exist as fodder and temporarily become seats, constructing the spatial order that makes collective occupation possible. With the dismantling of the pavilion, they relinquish this architectural role and recover their agricultural function. Ephemeral architecture, therefore, resides not in the object itself but in the intentional act that redefines its condition through space and use

photo_credit Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
photo_credit Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
photo_credit Edgar García + Rui Ortiz
Edgar García + Rui Ortiz

A lightweight, self-supporting framework made entirely of 3/8-inch steel rebar spans above the straw bales, supporting six modular sections of textile canvas. Simply draped over the structure, the fabric defines the pavilion's geometry while maintaining an open and permeable relationship between the interior and the surrounding landscape.

The resulting space offers shade during the day and transforms into a softly illuminated refuge at night. Rather than imposing itself upon the site, the pavilion establishes a reversible relationship with its context, where familiar agricultural elements are temporarily reorganized to produce architecture before quietly returning to their everyday role.

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