This project calls for a temporary pavilion to ramp up the grand opening of the Mint Museum in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. The pavilion will display ten works from a chosen artist's special collection, and will be exhibited accumulatively, where one piece is added to the display daily. This temporary structure is to be systematically designed for quick assembly in order to create a stir in the Uptown community. The selected artist, Zilvinas Kempinas, explores fleeting phenomena and invisible forces using his preferred medium, magnetic tape. He uses this strong but flexible material to craft a minimal language that speaks to the ability of light, air, and shadow to transform space. Optically altering the viewers perception of space, Kempinas abstracts perceived motion using the highly responsive tensile properties of video tape, calling attention to ambient spatial sensations.The goal is to create a series of panels, screens, and backdrops that can be used to set up a framework that Kempinas could use to install his pieces. It began with a rigorous analysis of site that inevitably fragmented into a formal language that choreographed the sequencing of Kempinas work across Wachovia Plaza. The system employs extruded aluminum framing for the pavilion's skeleton. The front screening element becomes the billboard for the work and the Mint Museum, and is comprised of a series of extruded aluminum posts, all cross-braced with a stretched canvas screen that is locked between members through a pressure-fit system. The panels for the large gallery and the various other planar elements was a product of assembly and interface and are a lightweight insulation board with fiberglass coating. The extruded aluminum system is versatile enough to allow custom components to begin to manifest themselves within a strictly organized system.
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