In this pavilion for PIBAMARMI, Alberto Campo Baeza wants to highlight the value of gravity, of the weight of the boulder over a man’s head: the myth of Sisyphus.
He placed a very large low-hanging stone suspended in the air under which the visitors to the pavilion must pass. An enormous stone measuring 4x4x1 m floating mysteriously and provocatively in the air.
He surround it with light with a veil of taut white silk forming a semi-cubic figure measuring 8x8x4 m which, when mirrored by the reflective floor, reconstitutes the form of a perfect 8x8x8 m cube. Crossing the mirrored floor, cutting spaces of 2×2 into the silk, is a pathway of white Carrara and Thassos marble staves 2 m wide.
Compressed as they pass below the enormous hanging stone, visitors will encounter on the reflective floor various baths, wash-basins and other Pibamarmi elements that appear horizontally and vertically symmetrical.
At the end a transversal room, with the same white stone paving as the pathway and a great container for Pibamarmi. And nothing more.
Images courtesy of Estudio Arquitectura Campo Baeza. Photo by Damiano Steccanella
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