Infrastructure

The History of a Pavilion
For 7 years, once a year, the construction of an unprecedented place has been celebrated in Santiago de Chile. These places come and they go. Truckloads of dirt, bundles of wicker, live corn plants enter and leave the park Parque Araucano… Nobody knows exactly what is hatching but it is certain that once again the park will surprise the visitors with something new.

Mexican and English architecture office Aidia Studio has designed a train station for Tulum with a sweeping latticed roof that will be built on the Tren Maya railway line in Mexico. Aidia Studio designed the perforated roof made from structural steel and glass-reinforced concrete panels to enclose over the platforms and concourse. The geometric grid will

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Tromsø – 5 people cross the street, meet in the middle, stop to talk. Traffic passes on either side. A woman stands holding a baby in her arms. She is breastfeeding. In Tromsø, the public space is continually defined by the inhabitants. In two months, a street may no longer be a street, it may become a ‘white’ field, space, on an island, between buildings, amid some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. A landscape that resists objectification. In 2003, SPACEGROUP won the international competition for the Prostneset Ferry Terminal in Tromsø, Norway. While many cities struggle to achieve ‘Terminus Nirvana’ – the climax of reaching the edge – Tromsø has the unique condition of having no hinterland, only ‘fore-land’.