Abel Erazo
About our Pavilion of Silence in Fiskars village, Finland, as a starting point we want to concentrate in the concept of sound from the nature. In a space like the forest there is no axis or hierarchy. Like inside the water, human enter in a different and dense space. In the forest the individual feel himself to be the ﾒmoving centerﾓ, if we donﾕt move, the space does not appear to our eyes, it keeps hidden. Forest spaces provide both, a means of naturalizing and a democratic, non hierarchical organization conceived around the small man. The action to move is personal and concerns the individual. Each time different, depending on the person, the man moving inside the forest draws an invisible path or tunnel around himself, made by texture, sound and images.
This road is actually a multi dimensional space. Inside one personﾕs mind it can be recognize as a ﾒvirtual tunnelﾓ. To start to visualize the virtual tunnel it needs an action, like in the forest if we dont move nothing will happen. Once we start to move following the texture, the sound in a relation of time start to gradually construct the space. The texture is the structure and the sound the atmosphere. Its what I call: The Tunnel of Sound.
Each person makes a new tunnel in his approach from the inside of the outside to the outside of the inside, the physical construction of this tunnel is the pavilion itself highlighting the sound experience with visual objects. The result can be read as a non-ending approach, ﾒthe act of drawing spatially closer to something that is always changingﾓ...or as an approach to ourselfs.