Le Pavillion du Bonheur Provisoire: Made of Beer Crates by SHSH Architects
Geschreven op 3-10-2010 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Hergebruik-Kringloop
Using 33,000 everyday, ordinary yellow beer crates like giant Legos, Architects SHSH assembled this visually intoxicating pavilion to pay homage to the fiftieth anniversary of the 1958 Universal World Exhibition.
The unusual structure is located in Brussels right next to the iconic ‘Atomium’ building which was built for the original exhibition.
With the constructive principles of universality and reusability, we decided to use a material extracted from the daily life of an ordinary consumer. Hence, a plastic beer crate is used as a generic element – like bricks, but deployed beyond its individual characteristics. This allowed us to explore many common architectural features such as columns, arches, and domes, combining together to form a huge and enigmatic interior environment. After an initial estimate, about 33,000 empty crates were necessary to construct the pavilion. The selection of this material allowed us to reduce the time of assembly and disassembly and produce a series of spaces that far exceeds the mere accumulation of common elements in an architectural format. Source: SHSH
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