Image courtesy Estudio Carme Pinós. Supplied.
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation today released the design for MPavilion 2018. Barcelona-based architect Carme Pinós of Estudio Carme Pinós has envisaged a sculptural, somewhat origami-like, structure for the fifth edition of the pavilion, which will grace Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens over the summer months.
The choice has a neat synergy with MPavilion’s values – Estudio Carme Pinós’ philosophy is to build communities and inclusivity through a nexus of people, design and city.
Pinós’ design incorporates floating planes that come to rest at angles on elevated points. The sight lights of those angles point to the city, in what MPavilion describes as ‘dissolving the lines between architecture and urbanism.’
The 2018 design is geometric in form, and is assembled in two distinct halves that are supported by a central steel portal frame. Two surfaces of timber latticework form the pavilion’s roof, allowing light to filter into, and animate the space.
Commenting on her MPavilion design, Carme Pinós, founder of Estudio Carme Pinós, said: ‘MPavilion 2018 is a place for people to experience with all their senses – to establish a relationship with nature, but also a space for social activities and connections. Whenever I can, I design places where movements and routes intersect and exchange, spaces where people identify as part of a community, but also feel they belong to universality.’
Pinós’s design has inspired MPavilion’s program themes for 2018, which include building communities, fostering inclusive cities, women in leadership, visual languages: fashion and architecture, regional contexts, and landscape and nature.
For the second year running, MPavilion is inviting the public to submit expressions of interest – an opportunity to become part of the season’s program, happening between 8 October 2018 and 3 February 2019. Anyone can apply and over 400 events are expected to be staged.
Carme Pinos (2018), Photo Wayne Taylor
Who is Carme Pinós?
Carme Pinós established Estudio Carme Pinós in 1991 following international recognition for her work with the late Enric Miralles. Playing a significant role in the rise of contemporary Spanish architecture, Pinós works from her hometown of Barcelona, increasingly expanding her portfolio throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. She is renowned for designing architecture that exhibits a deep commitment to the specifics of a given project site, its local and regional identity, and to the experience of the individual visitor or inhabitant. Her work spans large urban developments to social housing, public works and furniture design, and represents a deeply humanist approach to architecture.
Significant works from Estudio Carme Pinós include: Caixaforum Cultural and Exhibition Centre in Zaragoza (Spain), the Cube Office Towers I and II in Guadalajara (Mexico), the Crematorium in the Igualada Cemetery (Spain) and the Department Building of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). Pinós is the recipient of the 2016 Berkely-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize awarded by the University of California, Berkeley, for contribution to advancing gender equity in the field of architecture.
MPavilion is supported by major partners City of Melbourne, the State Government of Victoria through Creative Victoria, and ANZ.
Pinós will speak at the Living Cities Forum 2018 – Shaping Society, presented by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation on Thursday, 26 July at Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne.
For MPavilion’s submission guidelines and forms, please visit www.mpavilion.org/program
