the Cloud Pavilion

The Agora is a multifunctional space located in the City of Arts and Sciences complex in Valencia, Spain. It was designed by the renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who also created other iconic structures in the complex.

The Agora has a height of 70 meters and covers an area of 5,000 square meters, with an open plan resembling a pointed ellipse.

The Agora is the home of the CaixaForum, a cultural center that offers art exhibitions, conferences, concerts and shows.

The Cloud Pavilion, is a space in the CaxiaForum that invites users to immerse themselves in a sensory experience.

Site, smell, touch - in essence a cloud is one embedded in experience.

The essence of my interpretation of a cloud is reflected in this design, this pavillion also tries to create a dialogue between the inside and the outside and question our interpretation of spaces based on where we stand with respect to the artifact.

The journey from one end to the other within the sphere is as hard if not harder than actually walking in a cloud.

A 3D animated cloud was generated to understand the physical, dynamic and technical aspects of clouds. Blender and Cinema4D were used to model and animate the cloud.

The Cloud Pavilion itself was modeled in Rhino using the Grasshopper plugin.