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Transparency within the context and the landscape
The Pavilion seeks a dialogue between architecture and nature. Beyond the functional spatial quality, the project brings the play between «nature» and «culture» into a self-reflexive, «scintillating» representation.
The Pavilion positions itself at the interface of the main entrance axes of the Park, between the sunken garden and the water play, on a green carpet in front of the monk’s way. The pavilion alone, however, is not enough. It wouldn’t exist without the beautiful environment, wide open on the green landscape, reflecting the surrounding grass and trees. It offers an introspective view, while harboring a direct connection to the exterior as well.
The façade is composed of high polished steel columns and glass panels, juxtaposed to create a zig-zag movement along the circle.
The rectangular columns, supporting the roof and ceiling, dematerialise their existence while reflecting the surrounding landscape into the interior space. A blurring of the borders is created, between inside and outside, between appearance and being, desire and reality.
« Speaking of secret ones by secret. Isn’t that the contents? », wrote Vassily Kandinsky in 1910. Thus, the building is a distortion, a folding of the reality, which traverses beyond the strictly functional calculation forming a poetic constellation.
An amorphous volume is placed within the rotunda, which accommodates the kitchen, facilities and office, while organising the remaining partition-less area.
The information centre, found “within” the concave area of the form, receives the visitor. Conversely, the café, located against the convex area, directs the visitor back out into the landscape.
The floor configuration of the pavilion is a transmission of Walter Oberholzer’s “Bloodstreamer”. It completes the experiential process of discovery and dialogue, which is not only visually related to the landscape, but also historically and sensually.
The project responds to the complexity of the task and offers a larger than building response. The scheme is developed out of, and integrated into, the landscape. A moving and changing architecture is created; generating a space for communication, events, peace, and contemplation. |
