Bricktopia: contemporary crafts in EME3 Festival, Barcelona

© Manuel de Lozar + Paula López Barba

“Bricktopia”, by the architects of the international collective Map13, is the winning project in the “Build-it” Eme3 International Architecture Festival, held on June 27-30 in Barcelona. 

This intervention sets a new square which can house different activities, both under the pavilion and around it. Public spaces for bathrooms, sun, bar and stage for enjoying the summer 2013. It is a brick domed structure that employs the traditional construction system of a partitioned vault (or “Catalan vault”) computed with new digital tools for the structural optimization of the geometry.

 More information and images go to Arch Daily
 http://www.archdaily.com/444822/bricktopia-contemporary-crafts-in-eme3-festival-barcelona/