The response to mounting the Biennale of Architecture XVI begins with the choice of place: The Museum of Contemporary Art of Forest Park. While the building was not big enough to deploy the Biennale, presented virtues in the world to the event, and a central location with good accessibility, immersed in the largest park in Santiago but mainly bearer of one of the most significant variables for this Mounting: the possibility of extending the call for the Biennial to as many people, not just those linked to the guild but to a much larger population.

Open the sample in the specific context of the so-called “Toward an Architecture to Ensure Our Land” meant to expose our affairs linked publicly in a square to a place where different parts of the exhibition would include the exchange of information openly.

The entire sections of the Biennale was not completely inside the MAC, and that’s what we knew in advance to choose the place. The lack of space inside the museum opened the opportunity on one side of the street to get a good portion of the sample-one that is in the hands who do have more time and energy to generate knowledge through experimentation, the Student-activating at the same time the square above the museum and has been the scene of continuing public events tied to the arts of representation.

The “Square of jugglers,” arose as the public platform on which to build a temporary pavilion of 400 m2, of similar proportions to the central space of the MAC, which will contain the sample of schools. On the other hand, this frees from “exposure” to this central courtyard, turning it into the large auditorium to accommodate conferences of the International Meeting.

The assembly is limited to the convening of the biennial. From the beginning until the end of the design is pursuing the idea of working with reusable items or reused, since the structure of the flag of the schools and their coatings to the assembly and exposure to the interior of the museum. The first, based on scaffolding, working as a cage-free facility on the plaza, freeing as much public space for other activities biennially to the tangents. The exterior of the pavilion is a strip of fabric Aluzinc second selection provided by Hunter Douglas, although that material is recyclable, energy consumption of molten for this recycling is so high that it becomes cheaper environmental discard it.

Hunter Douglas opens a possibility then reuse saving of energy, making this element later in a potential first-line product. Likewise, the pavilion will have its interior fitted by a rug InterfaceFlor composed of recycled fibers that have been up by 80%. Once the biennial, 100% of the elements used in this flag will be reused.

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