Pavilion with a voice of its own .
Every major milestone in Barcelona’s modern history has echoed through this square. By creating an “Acoustic Pavilion,” the design acknowledges that Plaça de Sant Jaume is a place of speech.
The structure doesn’t just provide shelter; it uses Acoustic Ray-tracing to focus or diffuse the “Voice of the People,” metaphorically and literally amplifying the civic nature of the site.
This acoustic data is formulaically translated into dynamic physical forces within a computational physics engine. By treating sound volume as structural magnitude and pitch as vector orientation, the pavilion’s geometry is “found” through a process of iterative relaxation, resulting in a parametric mesh that physically deforms in response to the square’s social intensity. This form is then realized through a “skin-and-bone” fabrication strategy, employing a bent-active timber grid shell overlaid with a CNC-knitted acoustic textile.
Ultimately, the pavilion functions as a literal and metaphorical mediator: it uses acoustic ray-tracing to curate the city’s noise, creating pockets of silence or amplification that honor the square’s historical legacy as a site of profound public dialogue.
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Animation Video Of the Pavilion
