INFRA-EIREANN Q&A WITH GARY BOYD AND JOHN MCLAUGHLIN

摘要

The pavilion is intensely architectural -it is not a conceptual installation. Ireland doesn't have a permanent pavilion, so we have designed a flat-pack building to hold the exhibits -a fragment of modernity populated by drawings, models and photographs. We wanted to show the concrete identity of Irish modernity, so there are working drawings and large-scale details. One example is a curtain walling detail from 1961 that was totally dry - it used no mastic - and still looks good today. We have linked these details to the buildings and their infrastructural networks to show the relationship between the tectonic, the social and the territorial. We have also produced new, large-scale drawings of infrastructural networks.