Monday, 10 October 2011

Open Pavilion



Designed by Korean architectural form Mass Studies, this Open Pavilion acts as a ‘Public Living Room,’ for social interactions in Hakwoon Park where it is constructed. Open Pavilion is enclosed by forests nearby to a number of apartments. The different aspect if this pavilion is that it’s introverted, unlike other traditional pavilions which are extroverted. It gets people together in a location similar to a small stadium, where 70 seating’s stacked in four levels are integrated in the structure itself.



This structural system consists of a massive chain net formed from the lower seating section to the upper roof section. The unbroken pattern of different sized and shaped steel tube arcs form this flattened sphere-like structure, making it solidly steady. The lower half seating can be seen as an arrangement of bent steel tube chairs in a combined structure, whose interlocking acts as links in a chain. The seating is created with use of hammocks among these links. The purpose of the roof’s design is to hold up a suspended translucent casing to prevent the sun and rain.




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