Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Garden Pavilion
Garden Pavilion
Basel, Switzerland
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Other Projects by Christ & Gantenbein
Garden Pavilion
Basel, Switzerland
A small box sits at one corner of a luscious garden. Although completely undecorated, the shed-like structure is not a Venturian «duck» either, blurring too much its real intentions. Like a fragment of a palazzo, a series of large vertical windows are punched out of a flat façade. Inside, an enfilade of three main rooms 3.5 m in height relate to bourgeois interiors. By sliding the gigantic windows into the wall, and unfolding the folding-screen doors to enclose the bathroom and the kitchen, the structure is transformed into a garden pavilion. It pays tribute to a 1930s dependency, the garden pavilion of the bourgeois villa, which is simply closed by shutters. Inside, the creaking wood panels are painted in a posh shiny olive green which reflects onto a cold light-sanded concrete. There again, the material palette is nearer to a villa than to a backyard barn. The roofing-paper façade moulds the wooden structure and suggests a classical composition through its partitioning. This rough and cheap material suggests the building might not be finished. Although lying on a thin concrete base, the lack of an architectural frieze implies an inbetween space, suggesting that the fragment might eventually become an extension.
Product Spec Sheet
Were your products used?
Join as a manufacturer to add your products.