Pabellón "Leo por Naturaleza" FILBO 2024

Project Details

“Leo por Naturaleza” Pavilion FILBo 2024

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DESCRIPTION

For a few days, a pavilion becomes the setting for an alternative world where stories that seemed destined never to meet can become intertwined. As a temporary narrative, it allows to imagine much of what we can become, of what we are missing and what, despite the fact that sometimes we are unaware of it, gives meaning to our lives.

With the “Leo por Naturaleza” Pavilion for the Bogotá Town Hall at the 2024 FilBo, we imagined a scene where the experience of traversing the space and the living practice of orality, reading, and writing merge into a single ecosystem. The word becomes a root and architecture becomes body to remind us of ways to reconnect with the natural memory of the landscapes that surround us.

This is all about about believing that by conjuring certain voices, people, and things, the mystery is revealed to interlace the citizen word with the territory, and about how to continue crafting narratives regarding our diverse ways of inhabiting Bogotá.

We conceived the pavilion in layers, much like envisioning a landscape from a distance. The 850 square feet are organized around the logic of interacting ecosystems, where each area invites the discovery of a different facet of our relationship with the word and the territory.

In Bogotá, near the frailejones, wetlands, creeks and the long continuity of the mountains, there are reading spaces within the city. At the entrance, a cylinder houses an installation that showcases these bookstores, libraries, and community centers in interaction with the area's key ecosystems.

Towards the interior, a central street defines the sensory experience on either side: veils conceal machines, sounds, and small gardens. Through these dioramas we remember the presence of rivers, wetlands, dry forests, and andean paramos converted into scenarios where the word is experienced in different formats.

This combination of equipment and devices, along with the spaces of activation cultural located in the laterals, such as the auditorium, the workshops and the playroom are looking to transform this pavilion into a celebration of the reciprocity between Bogotá’s natural and cultural ecosystems, as well as the power of teamwork and collective creation.
These projects are, in essence, a celebration of trades with countless hours of work in conceptualization, design, assembly, production, management and mediation.
More than 60,000 people visited it during the fair, which tells us that the life of a pavilion 15 days is equivalent, in terms of intensity and experiences, to that of a conventional building in 15 years.
Our greatest appreciation to form the visitor of any age, from spectator to active participant.

DETAILS

Use

Pavilion

Duration

16 days

Attendees

60,000

Second life

-Library: re-used in the exhibition The River of MemoryArturo Alape in the National Library.
-Fabric: re-used as tablecloth and curtain in the Yemail Architecture Office.
-Module exhibition: Re-used material for module exhibition at the Hay Festival.

Area

800 m²

Location

Bogotá D. C. – Colombia

Meters above sea level

2,640 m

Year

2024

Client

Bogotá Town Hall

Design

Yemail Architecture

Project team

Antonio Yemail + Santiago Baquero

SCRD – Dirección de Lectura y Bibliotecas

Contents Coordinator: Juan Afanador
Coordinator of programming: Valeria Baena

IDARTES

Programming: Carlos Ramírez Pérez
Curatorial text: Lina Alonso
Promotion of reading: Yalila Pérez

SED

Jaime Benavides Espinosa
Mario Fonseca Diaz
Gina Padilla Quiroga
Eliana Salazar Moreno

General production

Laura Gutierrez

Graphic design

Relámpago

Mounting direction

Camilo Loaiza + Hernán Loaiza

Landscaping

Victoria's Natural System
Daniel Bernal
Elisa Triana

Lighting, sound, and logistics

Sebastian Aldana
Carlos Paez
Manuel Gutierrez

Architectural Model

Edwing Pinzón

Administration

Laddy Hernandez

Photo credits

Santiago Beaume and Paola Bermudez

Categories: 1.1 Pavilions, Culture