Raw Materials Pavilion / OficinaTransversal

The structure designed to host multiple corporate social events is located in a special setting, at the edge of the urban sprawl between the Sacramento River and the Sierra de Nombre de Dios, and is conceived as a habitat that integrates with and frames the landscape. The pavilion sits at the foot of the hill, next to an existing masonry wall, among large trees and on a raised embankment designed to level and elevate the views towards the surroundings.

Surrounded by nature, the locality of Santa Eufémia, near the village of Espinhal, is a region known for its high cultural and historical value due to its antiquity. Among its attractions, the watermills stand out.

With a fine sense of design and targeted architectural interventions, the full potential of this pavilion-like 1960s single-family house has been unlocked. The renovation presents itself as an atmospheric blend of Prairie House and Japanese Pavilion.

"Dance, dance… otherwise we are lost." This oft-cited phrase by Pina Bausch encapsulates not only the urgency of movement, but its capacity to reveal space itself. In her choreographies, space is never a neutral backdrop, it becomes a partner, an obstacle, a memory. Floors tilt, chairs accumulate, walls oppress or liberate. These are architectural conditions, staged and contested through the body. What Bausch exposes — and what architecture often forgets — is that space is not simply built, it is performed. Her work invites architects to think not only in terms of materials and forms, but of gestures, relations, and rhythms. It suggests that architecture, like dance, is ultimately about how we inhabit, structure, and emotionally charge the spaces we move through.