Memory of the project
Enhancing the experience of the city does not always require projects of significant cost and time, but can often come about as the result of modest, temporary interventions and events, in key places, at chosen times. The site of this pavilion is the Museum Gardens, Cambridge Heath Road in Bethnal Green, London. The gardens are on the English Heritage Register for Historic Parks and Gardens. It is approximately 1.05 hectares in size and its main use is as a recreational garden for living, working and visiting communities. Given it’s prominence within the community it serves, it is clear to us that it is important that the most is made of the site through our pavilion.
The Museum Gardens, and nature in general are the perfect settings to promote the idea of peace, to encourage the sharing of joyful stories and provoking discussions about architecture and design. Atelier Zündel Cristea propose a Pavilion which is visually and aesthetically engaging. They think it is capable of providing an ideal contemporary space which offers a sense of tranquility, beauty and an exceptional aesthetic value to the very heart of the Museum Gardens. Peace is one of the highest possible human ideals. It is a state of equilibrium; it means no war, but also harmony, silence, pureness, happiness, calm, tranquility… To express all of these ideas, a perfect and symmetrical sculpture has been created, obtained by a precise geometrical manipulation.
The beauty of the shape lies in its perfect symmetry and fluidity; there is no need to explain it a great deal as it is a pavilion that speaks to everyone. It allows visitors looking at the volume for a split second to get a sense of the pavilion and its layout with minimum effort. The symmetrical geometry of the pavilion blurs our notions of inside and outside, however the simple act of motion through the exterior and interior spaces of the pavilion bringing an understanding to the visitor.
The Pavilion is a self-supporting structure with 4m in height and 62m² in area, designed entirely with lightweight materials – 149,1m² of PVC membrane and 47.4 m3 of air. - the project is a selfsupporting structure; it is easily scalable to inhabit larger dimensions of other sites. To achieve such an apparently complex shape, they unite advanced tools of parametric design: in the study of tensile membranes and in the geometric conception of double curved surfaces, and digital fabrication: in the accurate manufacturing of the pavilion using CNC cutting machines.
CREDITS.-
Architects.- Atelier Zündel Cristea
Location.- Museum Gardens, Bethnal Green, Londres (Reino Unido)
Surface.- 20 m².
Construction.- TP Arquitectura i Construccio Tèxtil
Client.- ARCHTRIUMPH
