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Alfredo Arribas. Seat-Pavilion, Wolfsburg - Opus 44 Series (Spanish, English, Hardcover)
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Alfredo Arribas. Seat-Pavilion, Wolfsburg - Opus 44 Series (Spanish, English, Hardcover)
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Text in English and Spanish. In 2000 the Autostadt, a show park for
the Volkswagen group and its subsidiaries from Seat via Audi to
Bentley and Lamborghini, opened in Wolfsburg. Alfredo Arribas
designed the Seat Pavilion, and has brought off the brilliant trick
of making an essentially reticent building into the focal point of
the Autostadt. The structure is like a snail shell, forbidding and
closed with the exception of a band of windows that seems to rise
directly out of the surface of the lake on the Autostadt site. The
irregular curve of the ground plan is reminiscent of a leaf or
other forms borrowed from nature. Access is via two elegant ramps
floating over the water and the site and thrusting straight into
the centre of the pavilion: a homage to the old master, Le
Corbusier. And then inside we are confronted with a surprise-packed
exhibition landscape: a dazzling synthesis of acoustic and visual
impressions that cast their spell over visitors as they walk round.
Alfredo Arribas was a provocative newcomer on the architectural
scene in Barcelona in the late eighties and is now an international
success. He was probably predestined for this job like no other
architect. He showed a highly personal flair for presenting spaces
and goods from the outset, attracting early attention with his
designs for discotheques and bars like the enormous Louie Vega
(1988) discotheque, or the Torres de Avila (1990). The expressive
tower for the Marugame Hirai Museum (1993) is also part of this
creative phase, where forms did not necessarily have to be
justified by functional logic. But Arribas' architecture changed
into its business suit for the very next commissions. For example,
even bankers in their pin-stripe suits feel perfectly at home in
the cafeteria he designed for Norman Foster's Commerzbank
headquarters in Frankfurt. Arribas is working on two large projects
at present: a family entertainment centre in Bari and the Cite des
Musiques Vivantes in Montlucon.
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