Invited to design a pavilion recalling the lost history of a local water spring, in a parc which is concealing polluted soil, we couldn’t help but propose a cenotaph to water:

an empty tomb erected in honour of a resource whose remains are elsewhere.

A square, perfectly oriented, conceals within it a courtyard reminiscent of a classical impluvium. Within the generic city, a place of memory and experience emerges, with a strong sense of space: Experiencing water. No artifice, no spectacle.

Surrounding the impluvium is an enclosure wall that houses the project. Part park pavilion, part scenographic installation, the whole evokes the site’s turbulent history and, specifically, the water of Bel-Val. A place and a story symbolic of our society, now more relevant than ever.