{"id":751714,"date":"2026-08-27T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751714\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T19:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:30:14","slug":"twelve-tanks-and-aqueduct-trace-water-loss-at-mies-van-der-rohe-pavilion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751714\/","title":{"rendered":"twelve tanks and aqueduct trace water loss at mies van der rohe pavilion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twelve elevated tanks visualize water loss in Barcelona Pavilion<\/p>\n

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Plou prou? is an ephemeral intervention<\/a> by Cierto Estudio, h3o architects and Metr\u00f2nom at the Mies van der Rohe<\/a>\u00a0Pavilion<\/a> in Barcelona<\/a>. Selected through the Open Call for Barcelona 2026 World Capital of Architecture, the project invites visitors to rethink the relationship between architecture, water and the climate crisis<\/a>. The intervention focuses on one of the pavilion\u2019s defining elements: its reflective pools<\/a>. Far from being static surfaces, the pools are fragile systems affected by heat and evaporation, requiring water to be constantly replenished to preserve their familiar architectural image. Twelve elevated industrial tanks accumulate more than 12,000 liters of groundwater, equivalent to the volume estimated to evaporate from the main pool during the fourteen days of the intervention. An elevated channel crosses the pavilion as a temporary aqueduct, returning the water to the pool through a constant drip. This continuous thread of water makes evaporation and the passing of time physically visible.<\/p>\n

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all images by Simone Marcolin<\/a> and\u00a0Cec\u00edlia Coca<\/a><\/p>\n

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six panels map montju\u00efc\u2019s ecological and political waterscape<\/p>\n

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On the pavilion\u2019s exterior wall, six panels present research into the ecological, political and water-related history of montju\u00efc. The texts remain hidden when dry and only become visible when visitors spray the panels with water, turning the act of reading into part of the installation. Plou prou? connects the pavilion with Barcelona\u2019s invisible water infrastructures and with the wider waterscape of montju\u00efc. Rather than understanding architecture as an isolated object, the project by collaborative team of Cierto Estudio<\/a>,\u00a0h3o architects<\/a> and\u00a0Metr\u00f2nom<\/a> presents it as an active part of an ecosystem and a shared responsibility. The installation was accompanied by a public program combining performance, poetry, debate, gastronomy and music. These activities recovered the historical role of fountains as places for meeting, exchange and collective reflection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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