Cloud Watching

Concept Design - Wettbewerbsbeitrag

Konzeptstudie für ein transformierbaren Parkpavillion.

Dreams are dynamic. Characters, places and narratives change throughout gradually and without notice. It is when you leave the dream and wake up that you realize the change, the transformation. Cloud Watching is a proposal for a pavilion consisting of four volumes hovering above ground composing a figure. Each of the volumes is connected to rails and moves slowly from one position to the other, slow enough for the visitor not to notice so that over the course of an hour each of the volumes rotated and therefore transformed the overall figure. The volumes are built out of translucent single curved sails that can be stored and transportedflat. An aluminium frame holds the sails. Each of the volumes is fixed to two rails that enable the rotation. Pistons underneath the floor slowly pull and push the volumes between the two end-position. When all volumes are in the closed position the pavilion temporarily becomes an intimate protected room, guarding off views from the surrounding park. It then slowly opens up, both to the sky as well as to the park.