Peeled Pavement Bench
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nARCHITECTS’ Forest Pavilion - completed in May 2011 - serves as a shaded meeting and performance space for visitors to the Da Nong Da Fu Forest and Eco-park in Hualien province, Taiwan. The project was conceived within the context of an art festival curated by Huichen Wu of Artfield, Taipei for Taiwan’s Forestry Bureau to raise public awareness of a new growth forest that is being threatened by development…
This new circular gathering space emerges from the ground in a series of eleven green bamboo shading vaults, organized in two rings around a void. The plan is inspired by the rings of a tree, and the different form of the vaults by growth patterns in nature. In the same way that the infinite variety of shapes in a tree emerge from very simple branching rules, the configuration of vault shapes uses a single geometry, the parabolic arch, in a way that could in theory generate endless configurations… (more)
27 The Project - a filmmaker, two architects and a design collaborate on a journey through Europe’s contemporary architecture
This brings back some memories. - Here’s a video of the final model making panic for the end of year presentations at the Accademia di architettura Mendrisio. I particularly like the animated critique going on at the end.
makes me miss school dearly… when design was 100% impractical and fun.