Mexican Pavilion 'Echoes of a Land'.
16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale

The curator of the Mexican pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2018 Venice Biennale, Gabriela Etchegaray, invited ORU to explore ways to represent links between architectural scale and territorial scale. ORU's involvement focused on three key elements of the pavilion’s contents:

• The access panels.

• The volcanic axis piece

• Dynamic map. 

The panels, made of stone and sculpted by a CNC robot, represented the topography and bathymetry of the Mexican territory. The central piece showed the topography of the Neovolcanic Axis, which is the physiographic province that concentrates most of Mexico's urban population. Finally, the dynamic map of the Mexican hinterland reveals important elements of the Mexican hinterland by displaying layers such as:i) topography and bathymetry, ii) human settlements, iii) land, sea and air communication routes, and iv) production, resource extraction and energy. 

Category: Exhibition
Location: Venice, Italy
Year: 2018
Status: Finished
In collaboration with: Gabriela Etchegaray, Jorge Ambrosi, Marcos Colin, Carlos Zedillo, Juan Palomar, Hugo Sánchez, Alberto Kalach, Lake Verea, Santiago Arau, Mauricio Ginés, Manuel Rocha, Damián Comas y Hugo Royer.