Authors Anna Merci Architecture + bianchimajer
Location Mexico City, Mexico
Year 2018
Constructor Factor Eficiencia
Client Arquine
Surface 80 sqm
Photography Laura Fiorno (1, 2, 3, 4, 7), Ricardo Jacobo (6), and Anna Merci (8)
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I-CONO, designed by Anna Merci and bianchimajer, is a temporary pavilion that was built on the occasion of the Festival de Arquitectura y Ciudad Méxtropoli 2018, in Mexico City.
The festival represents the biggest architecture event in Latin America and brings together for 4 days more than 50.000 people — architects, students, local inhabitants, tourist and creative artists — to talk about architecture and city.
It is a big conical building made out of plastic containers. A black wooden trapezoidal entrance welcomes visitors in the spacious interior. The only exterior point of contact is the round-shaped opening facing the sky.
2500 containers were employed for its construction. The containers were assembled in 25 concentric circles whose diameters were gradually reduced as the building went up.
The containers were filled with water. Its weight substitutes the tie beams used to assemble the pavilion. At the same time, the water offers visitors a unique sensorial experience.
Each ring of the pavilion is a perfect circle made of bottles united by a metallic thread that perforates the coplanar containers in two points. Regular amounts of silicone unite the levels with one another.
The setup of the pavilion lasted 5 days for the duration of the festival and then for an extra day. It was then dismantled and permanently reconstructed at Huerto Roma Verde, in Colonia Roma.
Authors Anna Merci Architecture + bianchimajer
Location Mexico City, Mexico
Year 2018
Constructor Factor Eficiencia
Client Arquine
Surface 80 sqm
Photography Laura Fiorno (1, 2, 3, 4, 7), Ricardo Jacobo (6), and Anna Merci (8)