This project is the winner of the 1st International Architecture Contest Archivo Pavilion.

Pedro&Juana is the name of the studio based by Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss and for the development of the proposal they collaborated with the architect Gustavo Arroyo, who works in their studio.

The pavilion’s structure ideal proposal is that it needs to be made out of clay. This material,  was used by some ancient cultures, according to their writings, to form and shape (symbolically), their inhabitants. Also, this material is a protagonist in history. It has helped present times to get the remains of history through the objects made thousand years ago. That is why, quoting the project statement PedroyJuana justify the use of material as follows: “we chose to use pots as an object of design, to be recreated by us and used as an architecture material. Going back down to earth and being surrounded by earth, adding plants to it to create a living pavilion, that will grow and mold, and when the time comes to tear it down, you can just do it as they did in the old times, break it to little pieces back to the ground.”