DECI Pavilion, París
Pezo von Ellrichshausen- Typologies Ephemeral Architecture
- Date 2016 - 2016
- City Paris
- Country France
This column, an octagonal shaft that decreases its size upon ascension, embodies an ambiguous scale, resonating with historic landmarks while distorting the perspective of the most monumental axis in Paris. As a temporary wooden monolith, the object has a familiar yet remote presence.
Technically, this small tower might be read as a tenth of another building. Literally, the name of the construction is given both by that conventional proportion to reality but also by its number of levels, by its ten octagonal drums. Despite its modest size, this ambitious tower echoes many fictions: a Babel barbican, a ziggurat, a lighthouse, an epic pedestal or an obsolete telescopic observatory. Still, the tower is a genuine and tacit building, with enough room to be occupied by a single tenant (perhaps a voluntary prisoner, or a guardian), which can be understood as a mere part of a real building; a freestanding column.
As if following the ancient and arbitrary rule of ‘entasis,’ besides a rather reasonable gravitational logic, each drum decreases its size upon ascension. Each side of the drum has a simple rectangular opening. Since the opening does not change its size, the system closes in itself the moment there is not enough room to place another opening on the wall.
Ubicación Location
Jardín de las Tullerías, París, Francia
Cliente Client
Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC 2016)
Arquitectos Architects
Mauricio Pezo, Sofía von Ellrichshausen
Colaboradores Collaborators
Diego Pérez, Victoria Bodevin, Findlay Barge, Iven Peh, Sarah Biffa, Anton zu Knyphausen, Daniel Andersson, Teresa Correia
Consultores Consultants
Solo Galerie / Christian Bourdais,
Eva Albarran (producción production)
Contratista Builder
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Dimensiones Dimensions
120x120x730cm
Fotos Photos
Pezo von Ellrichshausen