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Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.º 47. 

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Connection MiesSANAA. On intervention by Sanaa in Barcelona Pavilion of Mies.

Authors

  • Francisco Muñoz Carabias Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio

Abstract

Outside the pun in the title, the influence of Mies in SANAA is evident both in the recognition of the architects themselves as recent studies that link. Delved into this "connection", a significant example is the intervention Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa made in the Barcelona Pavilion at the end of 2011.They introduced a transparent curved wall made of acrylic material that "almost" without altering the set enveloped the onyx wall of the "throne room". A primary gesture, the materialization of a tour a "topological" spiral pointing a center which paradoxically dissolves due to multiple reflections that intervention causes. Result: SANAA enter a labyrinth within a labyrinth, delayering, isotropy, and ultimately the "materialization" of a continuous symmetry, understood as a principle of equivalence in the internal structure of spacetime as Noether. An initiation show that reveals the future intentions of the true heirs of Mies. The intervention in the German pavilion thus becomes an offering on the "dissolved altar" of representing the temple of modern architecture.

Keywords:

Mies van der Rohe, SANAA, Barcelona Pavilion, space, symmetry