“Resonancia Suspendida: A Pavilion of Structural Lightness and Sensory Transformation”

This pavilion, designed by Pablo Pérez Palacios in collaboration with Reed Wood and Arboreal, is a structural and expressive exploration of wood as a contemporary material, capable of combining technical innovation, sustainability, and spatial poetry.

Conceived as an ephemeral and performative installation, the pavilion celebrates the intrinsic qualities of wood: its lightness, structural strength, and natural tactile and visual appeal. Starting with a simple structure, the project aims to achieve a powerful expression with a minimal number of elements.

The pavilion's central element is a 24-meter-long, 1.2-meter-high laminated wood beam, which spans the space uninterruptedly, suspended in mid-air like a floating line. This long-span beam is not supported by traditional columns, but rather rests on a system of rotating vertical wood panels.  Arranged according to a rotational logic, these panels appear to disappear, creating a sense of weightlessness.

When these panels are aligned, they act as direct structural support. However, with a simple rotation, they transform from solid support to transparency: they allow for both visual and physical passage, while reinforcing the impression that the beam is hovering in space. This transformative capacity makes the pavilion a dynamic, living structure, where the static and the dynamic coexist.

The result is an open, permeable, almost weightless space that showcases the inherent beauty of the material and its expressive potential in contemporary architecture. More than just an architectural object, the pavilion is an experience that explores the tension between mass and lightness, gravity and suspension.

Team:

Architects: PPAA

Project Team: Pablo Pérez Palacios, Emilio Calvo, Miguel Vargas, Jonatan Reséndiz, Adriana Hernández, Paloma Martínez, Michelle Katrib, Estefanía Gómez, Rodrigo Miranda

Photographer: Fabian Martinez