The green pavilion that Valencia will install as a "tribute to the Mediterranean blind"

If you look up, in any walk through our streets and cities, you will see hundreds, thousands of blinds. To these, in the midst of a climate emergency, the next pavilion that will be located in the city of Valencia for TAC! Urban Architecture Festival. The proposal is the work of Manuel Bouzas from Pontevedra, who assures that “the pavilion is a tribute to the Mediterranean blind. A mechanism that has allowed for generations the adaptation of spaces inhabited by human beings to inclement weather, offering the most effective, simple and light to protect yourself from high temperatures”.

The winning pavilion will be located in the Músico López Chavarri square, in Ciutat Vella, between September 14 and October 16 and will host a varied program of cultural activities organized together with local collaborators that will have the Valencia Climate Mission initiative as its axis. part of its Missions València 2030 strategy -one of the four areas of València European Green Capital-.

The installation is the winner of the ideas competition to design a temporary pavilion in the city of Valencia, as has been done in San Sebastián, which will be the second venue for the Festival and will install the Lost Forest project, a work to raise awareness about fires forests to the urban environment and attract the citizen’s attention to this problem.

The initiative is part of the General Secretariat of Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA), together with the Arquia Foundation, this edition also has the collaboration of the Valencia City Council, Urban Strategy Vlc 2030 , Missions Valencia 2023 and Las Naves.

The call for this second edition of the festival, whose central theme revolves around the role of architecture in the challenges faced by the urban environment in times of climate emergency, has received a total of 125 proposals presented in both cities of the which the jury has highlighted the great creativity of young architects when it comes to giving responses from the local context to the climate challenge and the ecosocial crisis.

Both winners, both in Valencia and San Sebastián, will receive a prize of 12,000 euros and will be able to carry out their project with an estimated base budget of 90,000 euros for the construction of the pavilions, which can be increased with contributions from sponsorships.