{"id":401304,"date":"2026-03-24T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/401304\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:06:24","slug":"pichiavo-builds-temple-to-burn-down-for-valencias-fallas-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/401304\/","title":{"rendered":"PichiAvo builds temple to burn down for Valencia’s Fallas festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local art studio PichiAvo used wood<\/a> and paper<\/a> to create a pavilion<\/a> based on an Ancient Greek temple, which was set ablaze for the Fallas celebrations in Valencia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Named Per Ofrenar, which means “to offer” in Catalan, the installation had a classical design that drew upon the Temple of Athena Nike in Athens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"PerPichiAvo designed a temple-like pavilion to be burnt as part of Fallas festival<\/p>\n

PichiAvo<\/a> designed Per Ofrenar for Fallas, an annual five-day festival where wood and paper monuments are exhibited in the streets of Valencia before being set on fire on the final day, La Crem\u00e0, which was on 19 March.<\/p>\n

Installed on a street in the centre of the city, its walls, roof and plinth were constructed from wood, while surplus paper from a book by PichiAvo was used for the capitals and bases of the pavilion’s Ionic columns.<\/p>\n

\"PerIt was made from wood and excess paper from a book by PichiAvo<\/p>\n

Inside, two candles were placed atop stacks of PichiAvo’s surplus paper, which was arranged to form an altar-like space.<\/p>\n

Fallas monuments often have sculptural designs that take the shape of satirical figures, but PichiAvo wanted to design a place for people to gather and leave religious offerings.<\/p>\n

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“Per Ofrenar means ‘to offer’, in the sense of making a symbolic, spiritual, or religious offering,” PichiAvo founders Juan Antonio S\u00e1nchez and \u00c1lvaro Hern\u00e1ndez told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to create a space specifically designed for that act, a place people could physically enter and leave an offering to the deities.”<\/p>\n

\"PerGraffiti was written on the walls of the temple during the festival<\/p>\n

“The temple naturally became the most suitable structure to represent this space within our visual language,” the duo continued. “It carries a strong symbolic meaning as a place of gathering, ritual, and connection between humans and the divine.”<\/p>\n

“As we see it, the temple is not just a form, it’s a space for action, for ritual, and in this project, it becomes a place where our visual language and the tradition of offering come together.”<\/p>\n

\"PerIt was set on fire on La Crem\u00e0, the final day of the Fallas celebrations<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the five-day festival, before being set on fire, visitors wrote their wishes and reflections in graffiti on the walls of the temple.<\/p>\n

Other wooden pavilions that have recently featured on Dezeen include a pod-like forest structure with openable facades<\/a> and a collection of timber installations built on the grounds of the 1969 Woodstock festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is courtesy of PichiAvo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local art studio PichiAvo used wood and paper to create a pavilion based on an Ancient Greek temple,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,375,17,11580,10758,10357,10358,10636,153966,383,53960,2579],"class_list":["post-401304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-installations","tag-ireland","tag-paper","tag-pavilions","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture","tag-sectiondesign","tag-sectionexclusives","tag-spain","tag-valencia","tag-wood"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116284069345256043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}