Walk and Talk pavilion

Sao Paulo

The pavilion for the walk and talk festival is designed as a communal structure to host a range of activities both prescribed and impromptu. The round structure is modeled after primitive tribal settlements layouts; where at the center, communal activities and cultural events unfold open to the sky around a looping roof. The public exterior of the pavilion loop offers the possibility for visitors to engage any of the fixed programs while the interior loop offers a more engaged experience and access to the stage centered events.

The pavilion is made of Japanese cedar wood and is a continuous loop of the different programs prescribed by the walk and talk festival administrators. These programs are realized in this proposed scheme in section so as to consider the exterior and interior functions and uses and so the section profile changes to best suit those uses. The pavilion then is a loop of the programs and their section and a negotiation of the profile most notably in the roof. The resulting geometry is a unique shape that reads and one structure while signaling individual moment/program within it. The roof is cladded in palapa or palm tree leaves to both accommodate the changing geometry and evoke the villages is model after.