Flexo InForm Assembly Pavilion

Woven timber as structural membrane carries profound archetypal resonance with basket-making traditions spanning virtually all human cultures, positioning Mauro Chiarella and Veizaga-Gronda team's Flexo InForm Assembly Pavilion within an ancient lineage of interlaced construction while simultaneously embodying contemporary computational intelligence. The dome form itself activates powerful symbolic associations with shelter, protection, and cosmic containment, the curved enclosure suggesting both the protective embrace of maternal architecture and the celestial vault overhead. Diamond-shaped apertures created by the crossing members may evoke traditional lattice patterns found across diverse cultural traditions from Japanese sukashi screens to Islamic mashrabiya, suggesting transparency, breathability, and the mediated relationship between interior sanctuary and exterior world. The warm wood tones carry associations with natural warmth, organic growth, and sustainable material practice, their honey and amber hues traditionally linked to nourishment, preservation, and the golden mean of balanced proportion. The elastic bending methodology transforms rigid sheet material into flowing curves, potentially symbolizing adaptation, flexibility, and the creative transformation of constraints into opportunities. Numerologically, the repeating grid pattern creates countless triangular subdivisions, the triangle traditionally associated with structural stability, dynamic energy, and triadic harmony. The structure's rootedness through its timber base while simultaneously reaching upward suggests the archetypal world tree or axis mundi connecting earthly and celestial realms. The collaborative assembly process encoded in the design name positions making itself as meaningful ritual, potentially evoking barn-raising traditions and communal construction as social bonding practice. The pavilion's permeability, neither fully open nor completely enclosed, creates liminal threshold space traditionally associated with transformation, passage, and the in-between states where change becomes possible.

Flexo InForm is an assembly pavilion derived from an innovative design processes oriented to geometric-material performance. The process developed begins with the parametric discretization of a complex geometry inspired by the weaving of natural fibers typical of the Argentine Littoral region. Simulation algorithms use active bending behavior as a design tool applied to structures that base their geometry on the elastic deformation of laminar elements. The result is a low-cost mono-material pavilion, self-supporting, adaptable to any terrain topography, low weight and fast assembly.