MADE IT! Organic Growth Pavilion by Izaskun Chinchilla Architects
16/06/2015.
Governors Island [NYC] USA
metalocus, IRENE GARCÍA
metalocus, IRENE GARCÍA
The pavilion by Izaskun Chinchilla Arquitectos at the end of the summer it will be recycled to make chandeliers and sun canopies (the pavilion by BanG studio will be an oyster beds).
Tons of work these last weeks but finally we've finished the NY City of Dream Pavilion 2015! People is already enjoying governors island under our big bunch of flowers so hurry up!
Built out of waste materials, their 95sqm canopy promotes cycling and allows 500,000 visitors to chill out under NY's biggest bouquet.
CREDITS.- Izaskun Chinchilla Architects.-
Izaskun Chinchilla (Principal Partner). Alejandro Esparilagas (Coordinator of the project). Adriana Cabello (Izaskun Chinchilla Architects Collaborator, Visiting Scholar Barlett School of Architecture and media manager). Paula Mena Albarrán (Izaskun Chinchilla Architects Collaborator and media manager). Sally Hart (Research Assistant Bartlett School of Architecture). Roberto Marin (Structural Consultant). Alfonso Aracil (Izaskun Chinchilla Architects Collaborator and indepent visual producer). Pedro Pitarch (Izaskun Chinchilla Architects Collaborator and indepent visual producer). Marcos Anton (Intership). Maria Bernardos (Intership). José Luis Fernandez (Intership). Esther Prieto (Intership). Irene Hernández (Izaskun Chinchilla Architects Collaborator). Crsitina Martínez (Izaskun Chinchilla Architects Collaborator). Rafael Álvarez-Rementería (External Collaborator). Talleres Antonio Abellán (Prototype fabrication).
Organic Growth volunteers.-
Rubén Ramales (coordinador de voluntarios de ENYA), Caroline Hadilaksona, Nina Ippolito, Kevin Wong, Lawrence J Pascual, Lervelle Regís, Camila Varon Jaramillo, Sergio Reyes, Verena Koenig, Pauline Barkin, Corina Tuna, Adriana Kosican, Rony Menéndez, Michael Pryor, Curisa Smith, Patrick Yang, Nicholas Liong, Jilian Tristam Cummings, Pablo Gualde, Irene Navarro Cascón, Laura Abad, Marcus Wilford.
Izaskun Chinchilla. Graduated Architect since 2001 from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain). She is driving her own office since 2001 in Madrid. She has a long experience in education. She is Senior Teaching Fellow and Researcher in Barlett School of Architecture (UCL London, UK). She has also teached in Ecole Special (Paris, France) and in HEAD University (Geneva, Switzerland) and was Studio Professor in the University of Alicante (Escuela de Arquitectura Universidad de Alicante) from 2002 to 2007. At the moment, she teaches in Madrid University (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) and in Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain). Her designer activity is acompanied by a research project called “Social and Aesthetic Repercussions of technical topics and solutions which take ecology into account” and that has taken her as visitting scholar to Columbia University in New York (2002), Ecole de Mines de Paris (2003) and Princeton University in New Jersey (2004) and also to the Institut d´Arquitectura Avancada de Catalunya (Barcelona), in a Postgraduate Master (2003-2007).