The Drawings of MPavilion 2019 designed by Glenn Murcutt, are revealed
11/07/2019.
[Melbourne] Australia 14.11.2019 > 22.03.2020
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Overall Geometry.-
- The pavilion will have a rectangular footprint with a total useable covered floor area of approx. 230m2 (24mx 9.6m).
- The overall roof area is 315.9m2 (10.6m wide x 29.8m long).
- The maximum roof height will be approx. 3.9m with a maximum internal ceiling height of 2.5m.
The pavilion design has the following components.-
- Steel framed structure with steel columns spaced at 4.8m centres to form portal frames.
- Wing‐like curved trusses to form the roof structure supported on the columns and provide the pavilion with 2.4m eaves on each side.
- The roof eaves will have a stainless steel garnet‐bead blasted finish creating a slick, sharp finish to the roof perimeter.
- The roof trusses will be wrapped in a translucent tensile roof membrane fabric to the top (Serge Ferrari Flexlite 702 S2).
- The internal ceiling panels will be suspended from the underside of the roof trusses. The ceiling will have translucent white Ceconite fabric stretched taut over sub frame panels.
- LED lighting will be concealed between the ceiling and roof panels to create the effect of a glowing lantern.
- The pavilion has no walls along the 2 long sides.
- The south elevation will be fitted with retractable blinds to provide weather protection when required.
- The north elevation will remain unobstructed at all times and will frame views of the Melbourne skyline.
- At each end of the pavilion, external walls and timber slat pivot doors will conceal a space approximately 4.8m wide by 1m deep to store back‐of‐house equipment and the kiosk facilities.
- The floor will have 1200mm long x 400mm wide concrete pavers within a 1m wide outside perimeter of river pebbles.
Materials
- Serge Ferrari Flexlite 702 S2 (white) has been specified as the tensile roof fabric.
- The ceiling fabric is Ceconite ‐ a synthetic material the same weight as cotton and is heat‐shrunk to fit. It has a translucent characteristic.
- The blinds are Weiner Vertitex 2 rope model fittings and will use the Serge Ferrari Soltis 86 ‐ 2044 white fabric which is semi‐ transparent.
Glenn Murcutt AO is one of Australia’s most respected architects. He has received twenty-five Australian architecture awards, including the RAIA Gold Medal, and international awards such as the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize; Alvar Aalto Medal (Finland); Richard Neutra Award (United States); ‘Green Pin’ International Award for Architecture and Ecology (Denmark); and the Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Design Award.
Murcutt was born in London, to Australian parents, in 1936. He grew up in the Morobe district of New Guinea, where he developed an appreciation for simple, primitive architecture. After graduating in 1961 with a degree in architecture from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Murcutt travelled for two years before returning to Sydney to work in the office of Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley. He remained with this firm for five years before establishing his own practice in 1970.
Murcutt’s small but exemplary practice is well known for its environmentally sensitive designs with a distinctive Australian character. His buildings, which are principally residential, are a blend of modernist sensibility, local craftsmanship and respect for nature.