IRTH Saudi Arabia Pavilion
CURATORS OF THE PAVILION: Noura Bouzo, Basma Bouzo
ARCHITECT OF THE PAVILION: AlBara Saimaldahar
ROTH R&D PROJECT TEAM: Elizabeth Cohn-Martin, Fernando Artigas, Estefania Mejia, Doria Reyes
IMAGE CREDITS: National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia and Roth Architecture, LLC
Venice Architectural Biennale 2023
Roth Architecture R&D was invited to submit material development work generated for the AlUla, Saudi Arabia project as a part of the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia. Samples chosen utilize salt and address broader questions on utilizing salt brine, a residual by-product/waste material from desalination processes as a construction material. These early phase samples utilize high purity sodium chloride salt as a primary ingredient and explore various base matrix materials that when combined together form diverse composite and crystallized studies.
Samples include: Calcium carbonate and salt composite, coalesced salt that has been solidified, salt and recycled polypropelene, and crystallized salt and borax.
