{"id":4772,"date":"2026-02-19T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:37:56","slug":"leopold-banchini-architects-draws-on-prehistoric-civilisation-for-asympta-pavilion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/leopold-banchini-architects-draws-on-prehistoric-civilisation-for-asympta-pavilion\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopold Banchini Architects draws on prehistoric civilisation for Asympta pavilion"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Asympta<\/div>\n

Swiss studio Leopold Banchini Architects<\/a> has created Asympta, a stone-and-wood pavilion that evokes the “unknown domestic architectures” of prehistoric societies in today’s Sicily<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The temporary Asympta pavilion was designed in reference to the people who would have lived in the Syracuse-Pantalica area from the 13th to the 7th century BC, when the Necropolis of Pantalica<\/a> was built.<\/p>\n

\"Wood-and-stone
Leopold Banchini Architects placed the Asympta pavilion by the Ionian coast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A collection of cemeteries from Pantalica is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, together with the city of Syracuse on Sicily’s Ionian coast.<\/p>\n

The pavilion’s form was designed to give an idea of what domestic architecture in the region could have looked like.<\/p>\n

\"Pavilon
The pavilion is constructed from local materials<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Asympta is a speculative micro-architecture reflecting on the largely unknown domestic architectures of the prehistoric civilisation that inhabited the Anapo river valley,” Leopold Banchini Architects said.<\/p>\n

“Asympta is a speculation on a possible architecture born from this unique landscape,” added studio founder Leopold Banchini.<\/p>\n

“Using the resources of the territory as a starting point, the project develops from available materials and possible assembly details,” he told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

\"Roof
The roof tiles were made from lava from Mount Etna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The structure’s form was designed to accommodate gathering and reflection, and reference both eastern Sicily’s volcanic landscape and the nearby ancient stone quarries.<\/p>\n

It also aimed to question the “romanticised myth of the primitive hut,” the studio explained.<\/p>\n

\"Roof
Stones from a nearby quarry were used as the foundations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Banchini used local materials for its construction, including lava stone from the nearby Mount Etna volcano.<\/p>\n

“All the materials of the project are currently and easily available onsite,” Banchini said.<\/p>\n

“The stones used for the foundations come from a nearby quarry, the wood is sourced locally and assembled with traditional joints, the roof tiles are cut in Mount Etna lava.”<\/p>\n