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Salt Pavilion

A visitor pavilion for the working salt flats, built in board-marked concrete that will weather to the colour of the pans around it.

Location
Aveiro, Portugal
Year
2024
Programme
Cultural
Status
Completed

On the design

A visitor pavilion for the working salt flats, built in board-marked concrete that will weather to the colour of the pans around it.

The section was drawn before the plan. We began with the ground — its slope, its light, and the horizon it framed — and let the building settle into that reading rather than impose a shape on it.

A short material palette, detailed in the studio down to every junction, carries the whole scheme: board-marked concrete, oak, and glass, meeting without trim and left to age honestly.

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