Located at the main entrance leading into the future Pacific Plaza Park, the proposed pavilion welcomes pedestrians into the park with a large shade-providing structure. Reaching out toward the corner at the intersection of Pacific Avenue and North St. Paul Street, the pavilion hovers around the proposed amphitheater knoll, delicately wrapping around the event and lawn space.
The pavilion form bends to meet the ground, creating a series of continuous framed views to the surrounding programmatic areas of the park, with each frame having its own unique spatial quality. Acting as a backdrop to concerts and other civic events, a curving skin of perforated metal panels provides shade and filters sunlight, presenting dynamic visual surface patterns of the Morse Code pattern throughout the day, complimented by illumination through the porous pavilion at night. Nestled within the existing Live Oak tree canopies and surrounding a cluster of Ginkgo trees, the pavilion will harmoniously integrates with the proposed landscape, acting as a way-finding device that visually connects Pacific Plaza Park to nearby urban spaces.
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