Pavelló-Laberint (Pavilion-Labyrinth) constructs, on the travertine podium of the Barcelona Pavilion (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1929), a glass labyrinth that reawakens and unfolds the latent tension of Miesian space, in which transparency materializes, with unsettling precision, the thicknessless boundary. The massless surface and limitless space are constituted as a liminal space-mass.
The flat pane of laminated glass, superficial, exact, conventional, impermeable, extends the Pavilion’s condition as the construction of a non-shelter and intensifies the idea of an architecture that rigorously exposes its fragility. Transformed into a Labyrinth, the Pavilion takes the anti-enclosure to the extreme at which lightness and transparency become density and opacity.
The saturation of the layout of open dividing planes multiplies and saturates the experience of the boundary until it becomes an absolute, omnipresent, and exclusionary state. The ambiguity between interior and exterior is superseded by the ambiguity between presence and disappearance: habitable space fades away even as the presence of space as an object intensifies.