HUT-SPOT: Pavilion Built from Pruning Waste in Cesena

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In Italy's Emilia-Romagna region, on the coast of Cesena, the asphalt of a long-abandoned tennis court is slowly being reclaimed by the vegetation of the Romagna hills. (m²ft architects) Positioned precisely at this transition point, HUT-SPOT finds its meaning at this threshold between nature and the artificial; a small but powerful pavilion of just 10 square meters that transforms pruning waste and dry branches collected from the forest into a modular structure.

A Boundary Where Two Different Logics Intersect

HUT-SPOT's location is no accident. The project creates a kind of buffer zone between an asphalt void that nature has reclaimed at its own pace and its surroundings that still bear the mark of human activity. The pavilion stands at a point where these two worlds—the order of the artificial and the spontaneous expansion of nature—not collide, but touch each other. The designers have interpreted this threshold not as a problem, but as an opportunity: they have transformed the transformation process of an abandoned space into a narrative to be built upon.

A Ziggurat Built from Pruning Waste

HUT-SPOT's structural logic draws from the forest's own waste. Pruning branches and dry twigs collected from the forest are arranged in a rectangular prism-shaped grid, transforming into a layered structure in the form of a ziggurat. This method both nods to a very old construction tradition and responds to today's discussions on production with waste materials; this layering, created by stacking branches on top of each other, is a simple but effective bridge between the primitive and the modern.

A Big Proposal on a Small Scale

Despite its modest scale of 10 square meters, HUT-SPOT offers a powerful example of how abandoned urban-natural thresholds can be reinterpreted. Viewing the material discarded by the forest not as waste but as building material, this approach points to an architectural practice that respects nature's own cycle at the intersection of landscape architecture and temporary structures.