A strange object in the city's busiest center: what lies behind the CCP Pavilion?
A strange object in the city's busiest center: what lies behind the CCP Pavilion?

A strange object in the city's busiest center: what lies behind the CCP Pavilion?

An easily transportable wooden pavilion is located in Independence Square in the Chilean city of Concepción. But what is this really about? Commissioned by the development company CORFO Chile, CCP Pavilion hosts activities and exhibitions related to the city's manufacturing sector

República Portátil creates a space capable of gathering, receiving and displaying the meeting of activities related to the productive sector in an extremely visible and central urban location, at the intersection of Caupolicán and Barros Arana streets, a point laden with historical urban objects, the scene of political and religious demonstrations, a public space of contrasting social relations frequented daily by hundreds of people

A strange object in the city's busiest center: what lies behind the CCP Pavilion?

The pavilion has an oval floor plan, is made entirely of wood and is open to the sky in the center. The temporary wooden construction, installed in the city's busiest center, certainly arouses a lot of curiosity in passers-by, who try to give different interpretations to the presence of the foreign object, from the image of an upside-down loudspeaker to that of a resting hut, an echo of the vernacular building of the Mapuche people in southern Chile

A strange object in the city's busiest center: what lies behind the CCP Pavilion?

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