A 1,500-square-metre events pavilion in Hyderabad, India, has been built almost entirely from materials pulled off local construction sites — and it was designed from the start to be taken apart.

The Reclaimed Pavilion, reported by Dezeen on 5 August 2026, was commissioned by the real estate firm Jayabheri Group for a rapidly developing neighbourhood in the city. Designed by the Hyderabad-based studio Kanan Modi Associates, the structure serves a dual purpose: it houses work and events spaces alongside a show home for a nearby apartment block called The Pinnacle. Dezeen

The materials read like a salvage inventory. Gabion walls — wire mesh baskets filled with rubble — are built from construction debris and divide the pavilion's three main spaces, extending beyond the building's edges to shade and separate outdoor areas. Bricks were made from excavated earth. Corrugated metal sheets, reclaimed from other sites, form the surfaces above. All of it was assembled to be easily dismantled.

Around the site, a gridded framework of repurposed scaffolding, painted a deep red, supports zigzagging canopies of jute fabric that shade the external areas. An L-shaped pool wraps around the southwestern edge. Inside, visitors enter through a pale brick-paved reception area with a sunken pit at its centre. The layout is organised as a row of flexible gathering and events spaces, lined by more compartmentalised private rooms for work and meetings.

The flexibility is deliberate. Kanan Modi Associates designed the layout to accommodate art exhibitions, talks, performances, community events and informal gatherings, all arranged around a central water body.

Kanan Modi, the practice's founder, told Dezeen that the pavilion's dismantling was planned from the outset. The scaffolding system will return to construction use. The corrugated metal sheets will be reused elsewhere. The excavated earth blocks will go back into the ground as fill. Nothing is meant to stay.

Kanan Modi Associates is a multi-disciplinary architecture and interior design practice based in Hyderabad, with additional offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, according to the firm's LinkedIn page.

What makes the project unusual is not any single material or technique but the commitment to a full lifecycle. Temporary structures are common in the events world — pop-up pavilions, festival tents, biennial installations — but they are typically dismantled with their components destined for storage or disposal. Here, the afterlife of each material was specified before construction began. The scaffolding goes back to building sites. The earth goes back to the ground it came from. The corrugated metal finds another roof.

For a city expanding as fast as Hyderabad, where construction sites generate vast quantities of debris and excavated soil, the pavilion offers a working example of how that waste stream can become a building — briefly — and then dissolve back into the cycle it came from.