Enameled steel, vinyl-coated glass. 18.05 x 4.8 x 1.8 metres

This pavilion was commissioned by the Colección Jumex in Mexico City and installed on the grounds of the Jumex factory. The pavilion is attached to the fence which separates the employee and visitor parking lot from the truck yard of the factory's shipping department.

The Pabellón de bicicletas has several functions: it is a sculptural object on display, it is a lookout or mirador from which to gaze over the Jumex factory grounds, and it is a storage shed for bicycles. The design came out of an interest in the pavilions of European Modernists such as Jose Luis Sert and Le Corbusier, as well as an interest in mid-20th Century Mexican architecture, known as fonccionalismo.

(Photographs below and bottom left by Jorge del Olmo. Left and bottom right by Francisco Kochen.)

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