- Client
- Arkitetak collective
- Brief
- Coverage of the pavilion build, from the ground and the air, and a video.
- Place
- Donostia
- Date
- October 2025
- Event
- Mugak/ 2025, Basque Country Architecture Biennial
The series
Metal arches, a white cover on top and a table inside: the group Arkitetak raised a greenhouse pavilion for the Mugak/ 2025 biennial.
The group Arkitetak built a greenhouse-shaped pavilion as part of the Mugak/ 2025 biennial, the fifth edition of the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial (9 October to 14 November 2025). They raised it in Donostia, on the lawn in front of the Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology: they began with metal arches and covered them with a white sheet.
Arkitetak commissioned me to document the build, and I followed it from start to finish: raising the arches, tightening the joints, stretching the cover and, once the pavilion was finished, the talk around the table set up inside. It is architecture made by hand and as a group, and that is what I looked for in the photographs: helping each other up, holding the tubes, pulling the cover together.
I also took a few images with the drone, to see the build from above: a small structure slowly taking shape in the middle of a lawn.
Video · 1:53
The build in brief
From arches to cover, from above and on the ground.
The music in the video is Lurdes Iriondo's «Ez gaude konforme» («We are not satisfied»), and it is no coincidence: 2025 marked twenty years since Lurdes died.
Lurdes Iriondo was a singer-songwriter and writer, one of the founders of the Ez Dok Amairu movement. Both the song and Lurdes's character reflect the spirit of Arkitetak.
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