'Pavelló-Laberint' Art Intervention by Ciro Najle and Josep Ferrando
12 November 2026 – 22 November 2026 · 10:00
Pavelló Mies van der Rohe, el Poble-sec, Sants-Montjuïc
Pavelló-Laberint builds, on the travertine podium of the Barcelona Pavilion (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1929), a glass labyrinth that revives and unfolds the latent tension of Miesian space, in which transparency materialises, with unsettling precision, the boundary without thickness. The massless surface and boundless space become a liminal space-mass. The flat pane of laminated glass —superficial, exact, conventional, impermeable— extends the Pavilion's condition as the construction of a non-shelter and intensifies the idea of an architecture that rigorously exposes its fragility. Turned into a Labyrinth, the Pavilion takes the anti-enclosure to the extreme where lightness and transparency become density and opacity. The saturation of the layout of open dividing planes multiplies and fills the experience of the boundary until it becomes an absolute, omnipresent and exclusive state. The ambiguity between inside and outside is surpassed by the ambiguity between presence and disappearance: habitable space fades away while the presence of space as an object intensifies. Each segment works as a pause suspended in the continuous air, now entirely built and rarefied. It is a geometric…
Part of the programme: Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026. See the 43 activities in this programme in Barcelona, from September 5 to November 23.
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 2 November 2026