New Horizon_architecture from Ireland will present the work of 10 emerging Irish Architecture practices. Hall McKnight takes part with 'Yellow Pavilion'. For the London instalment as part of LFA, the Irish designers included are TAKA, Clancy Moore, Hall McKnight, Steve Larkin and Emmett Scanlon. This collaborative project seeks to explore in detail the theme of the festival, 'Work in Progress', at a city scale, resulting in two pavilions in Cubitt Square King’s Cross, and one installation in The Tank at the Design Museum. The two pavilions at Kings Cross start with the observation that the city es a permanent work in progress. The city is a collective work made and remade continually by many hands over time, and acts at once as both archive and laboratory. Both pavilions were ordered by the ID15 as part of the LFA 2015 and will play host to talks, performances and collaborations with other emerging creative talents in contemporary Irish design culture.
From 1st to 30th on June 2015, as part of the LFA 2015 events, Hall McKnight proposing structure's will be sited in the southwest corner of Cubitt Square the 'Yellow Pavilion'. The Yellow Pavilion will explore how the phenomenon of the city is assembled from individual pieces. While the 'Red Pavilion' by TAKA, Steve Larkin Architects and Clancy Moore Architects, siting at the square’s northern end, will explore architecture’s role as a background to the activities it contain. These will act as both a background to the life of the square and a series of markers between Granary Square to Cubitt Square and beyond to Cubitt Park.
The Yellow Pavilion - King's Cross
The Yellow Pavilion is manufactured from a kit of pieces cut from boards and assembled in units. Hall McKnight were interested in recognising how pieces of individual character and identity can combine to contribute to, and sustain the idea of city. The pavilion contains an installation that is an allegory of the city as an open project - alive, ongoing. The pavilion is a vehicle to a collection of bricks that speaks of a city as a work in progress.
The bricks have already had a life within a terraced street in Belfast, now they have another life - their individuality being amplified through that process. During this process - the bricks have described or occupied a range of different spaces; stacked on 2 pallets, solid and uniform, laid out as a grid on the upper floor of the flax mill in which Hall McKnight have their studio. Like their original use in a street, their installation within the pavilion allows them to contribute to the definition of space.
Throughout, they have remained unchanged as individual pieces, however their placing and arrangement has allowed them to assume different forms and expression; to adjust and amplify spaces in a range of ways. The city as a collection - streets, experiences, buildings, memories, people. Bricks seem to absorb and hold memories - occupying both the old city and expecting the new one.
