ABSTRACT
Roly Poly pavilion was designed as a temporary intervention, built in Almeria in 2016, to be part of the International Festival of Art and Construction. This project aimed to reuse an early-developed economic construction system commonly used in the Japanese and the Latin-American architecture as a technique for the design of the tea houses and ‘quincha’, respectively. The current proposal aims at the implementation of wood structures packed with reed and mud, materials all available near to the construction location. Six people without previous experience undertook this project. The outcome of this project was the construction of a pavilion built on the basis of ancient techniques, which exhibited contemporary qualities. In a period of economic crisis, we propose to build affordable and self-made architecture. Thus, architecture should not be only a matter of money, but a resource to be useful to anyone, making it fast, affordable and available to everyone.
