BEAUTIFUL FAILURES

A site-specific intervention that investigates fragility and vulnerability through two of the most delicate materials of the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe: glass and travertine. The new landscape resulting from the partial removal of the pavement, and its relationship with the rejected glass pieces, show similarities with an archaeological stratigraphic excavation. Understood simultaneously as a ritual of burial and revelation, the intervention sets up a cycle of birth, death and rebirth in which all the elements play an important role: from the history of the pavilion to the life force concentrated in each of the pieces of glass.