The Unique AUE Pavillions
Posted by Edward Dy on July 20th, 2008
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Designed by architect Robbrecht en Daem Architecten - Gent BE, the Aue pavilions were erected temporarily for the hundred days of Documenta IX in Kassel. The awesome structure housed the contemporary art exhibitions.
The pavilions were visited by 600,000 people, and featured the work of twenty-eight artists. The Building stood in the baroque park of Friedrichs’ Aue’s.
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A series of pavilions were grouped on an axis which extended tangentially towards the park structure. The buildings were a crystallization of the various successive zones which constitute the landscape. This was a temporary low-budget construction built from an elementary steel structure of successive arched porticos.
The Aue Pavilions were dismantled at the end of Documenta and the steel structure was transported to the Netherlands, where the entire edifice was reconstructed in Almere and once again serves as an art pavilion.
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