CENT Pavilion, Chicago
Pezo von Ellrichshausen- Typologies Ephemeral Architecture
- Date 2015 - 2015
- City Chicago
- Country United States
This slender and stable figure is meant to convey a sense of silent and convoluted simplicity. It is self-centered, self-regulated and self-located as an opaque monolith without any scale, direction or hierarchy, as a podium for an invisible statue. Its construction has a single structural logic. It is unwisely rational since the same corner detail is repeated all over and the same diagonal bracing underpins every center. But the handcrafted elements should imply delight over thought. In the end, this is a device that, in its own fiction, collects roughly everything: from Hockney’s inverted perspectives, Morandi’s natura morta or Guarini’s telescopic domes to those anonymous bell towers, water towers, lighthouses, silos, chimneys or even the inaccessible purgatory before an ambitious prototype for the next city high-rise.
Ubicación Location
North Ave Beach, Chicago, Estados Unidos
Cliente Client
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Arquitectos Architects
Mauricio Pezo, Sofía von Ellrichshausen
Colaboradores Collaborators
Agata Siemionow, Dirk Denison, Richard Nelson, Lisa Palm, Lova Strindberg, Jorge Serra, Jenna Staff, Yuanchen Shi, Claudia Cabrera, Man Hu, Luis Marrero, Felix Zdrojkowski
Consultores Consultants
Paul Endres, Endres Studio (estructura structure)
Contratista Builder
Tip Top Builders / SVI Themed Construction Solutions
Superficie construida Built area
25 m²