Alternatural Pavilion in Llanes (Asturias)

Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea

Type Pavilion
Date 2019
City Llanes (Asturias)
Country Spain

In the Asturian municipality of Llanes, close to the Posada de Babel inn, rises this pavilion 13 meters long and 2.8 meters tall at most. A work of Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea, the structure of timber frames is raised on a block of prefabricated concrete and its outer skin combines bastard mortar of cement, lime, sand, and black iron oxide. The Alternatural project connects sculpture, architecture, and landscaping. Ruiz-Larrea explains: “Compressing the space it sits on and creating a hollow or void to fill with meaning through experience itself makes it possible to renounce a pacified picture of the natural in favor of a more complex idea that must be renegotiated.”