Learning from Pavilion. 100+100

In Learning from Pavilion the topic of Pavilion has been elaborated as a moment of materialization of an idea that is still a “thought”. Its ephemeral nature is connoted not as a device for statement of a temporary spatial principle but as a memory and synthesis of an idea to design in the future that challenge the time and transform it into eternal work, becoming an occasion of a continuous verification and experimentation with the “limits “of the project. Assumed as an sensible indicator of a profound mutation of the architecture and the art, the topic of the Pavilion is elaborated trough a List of 100 projects from 1851 (The Cristal Palace of Paxton) to 2015 (the UK pavilion of Buttress for Expo Milano) that in a sort of a conceptual and visual “vertigo” become a path of knowledge and exploration and collection of spatial visions re-classified according a formal categories: PUREVOLUME_GRID_PLANS_SHELL/MEMBRANE_VOID_FRAGMENT_ACCUMULATION/ENTANGLEMENT_REPETITION_TRANSPARENCY. The second part of the publication consists 100 spatial diagrams of Pavilions developed from the first year students. It is an atlas of generative grammar of some entities for designing – Point, Line, Surface, Volume – conceived as geometries and founded materials for construction of the architectural space.