Festival Pavilion

Built as a temporary entrance pavilion for a summer art festival, this project was generated by overlaying Michelangelo drawings of a fortification and a figure study. A timber cube seemingly floats above the overgrown grass in front of a regency manor house. Michelangelo’s fortification plan is exploded upwards from the pavilion’s deck into a 3-dimensional drawing in space using a kilometre of white rope. Where these ‘lines’ meet the implied envelope of the cube they are deflected by steel tensioning cables, allowing the creation of openings, routes, and shady places to sit. Visitors approach the pavilion along a channel mown in the grass, step up into the cube, and approach the house along a flexing plywood causeway.