The Pavilion “Slicing Opacity” realized by the students of the class “In Silico Building” (under the supervision of Pr Paul Ehret & Philipp Eversmann) in collaboration with the laboratory ICOM from ENAC EPFL (Christian Louter) proposes to revisit the idea of miniaturized monumentality.

It appears as a skeleton from an organic shape which seemed to be sculpted by erosion for multiple centuries. The transparent junction made of structural glass between wood horizontal planes liberates the view, setting up the architecture of disparition.

Half way between a desert monument and a garden back side miniature, the piece has a scale of a piece of urban furniture. Its formal diversity generates a spatial richness proposing numerous interaction layouts to the visitors.