Greenhouse and public cannopy for a social orchard

Commissioned by FesCamp-Mirasol, a sustainability focused project self-organized and driven by the Mirasol community, Timbernacle is a greenhouse for plantels, a facility with lockers and storage, and a canopy.

It consists of 32 expanded arches with no hinges, with different linings for its different uses. Transparent celular polycarbonate for the plants, translucent for the facilities and a deciduous vegetal screen for the canopy. By means of sustainability and a very low budget the building structure re-uses the former structure of TorUS, a project from 2013 that was saved and stored.

Timbernacle is the last and final stage of a three time-step prototype testing, as part of the office’s research on Elastic Pliable Structures. The permanent configuration has been assembled and reassembled two more times, for 3 days back then in 2013 at UsBarcelona festival and three months in the Design Museum of Barcelona for the Smart Flexibility exhibition, proving its reusability.