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Peace Pavilion
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Museum Passage, London, United Kingdom
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Peace Pavilion
Museum Passage, London, United Kingdom
Enhancing the experience of the city does not always require
projects of significant cost and time, but can often come
about as the result of modest, temporary interventions and
events, in key places, at chosen times.
Our office is dedicated to the conception of interventions
likely to appeal to city residents, transforming the way in
which they view the places around them and the practices
possible in their cities.
Human beings carry within them nostalgia of a primordial
happiness from ancient times. The notion of a return to
these origins of happiness is often associated with Nature.
Our intention is to encourage inhabitants to participate in
fun, uncommon events taking place within the urban land-
scape: an inflatable bridge equipped with giant trampolines
rises above the Seine, a pavilion erected in a London park, a
museum traversed by a roller coaster.
These projects offer, in the heart of the city, new forms of
Elysian Fields, given over not to the Champs-Élysées of
shopping and strictly urban activities, but rather to funda-
mental human practices, which liberate strong emotions
calling on all our senses.
The site of this competition is the Museum Gardens, Cam-
bridge Heath Road in Bethnal Green, London. It lies within
the Tower Hamlets and Hackney boroughs. The gardens
are on the English Heritage Register for Historic Parks and
Gardens. It is approximately 1.05 hectares in size and is
surrounded by: Cambridge Heath Road, Museum Passage,
V&A Museum of Childhood, St John’s Church and Victoria
Park Square. The site’s main use is as a recreational garden
for living, working and visiting communities. Given it’s pro-
minence within the community it serves, it is clear to us that
it is important that the most is made of the site through our
pavilion.
Our project responds to the desire to create a temporary
transportable pavilion for the summer of 2013 in such a
public space, with a need for inclusion, socializing, relaxa-
tion, discussion, reflection, escape, view and enjoyment of a
high quality space.
It will provide an inspirational space where visiting architects,
designers, families and the general public can stand and
sit whilst admiring, embracing diversity and engaging with
each other in discussions about design, the importance and
benefits of peace and co-existence, or even novel stories
they have to tell in a peaceful setting.
The Museum Gardens, and nature in general are the perfect
settings to promote the idea of peace, to encourage the
sharing of joyful stories and provoking discussions about
architecture and design.
We propose a Pavilion which is visually and aesthetically
engaging. We think it is capable of providing an ideal
contemporary space which offers a sense of tranquility,
beauty and an exceptional aesthetic value to the very heart
of the Museum Gardens.
Peace is one of the highest possible human ideals. It is a
state of equilibrium; it means NO WAR, but also harmony, si-
lence, pureness, kindness, happiness, appeasement, calm,
reconciliation, serendipity, tranquility...
To express all of these ideas, we have created a perfect and
symmetrical sculpture, obtained by a precise geometrical
manipulation. The beauty of the shape lies in its perfect
symmetry and fluidity; we feel there is no need to explain
it a great deal as it is a pavilion that speaks to everyone. It
allows visitors looking at the volume for a split second to get
a sense of the pavilion and its layout with minimum effort.
The symmetrical geometry of the pavilion blurs our notions
of inside and outside, however the simple act of motion
through the exterior and interior spaces of the pavilion brin-
ging an understanding to the visitor.
The Pavilion is 4 meters in height and 20 Square meters in
area. Designed entirely with lightweight materials – 77.96m2
of PVC membrane and 20m3 of air - our project is a self-
supporting structure; it is easily scalable to inhabit larger
dimensions of other sites.
To achieve such an apparently complex shape, we unite
advanced tools of parametric design: in the study of tensile
membranes and in the geometric conception of double
curved surfaces, and digital fabrication: in the accurate
manufacturing of the pavilion using CNC cutting machines.
projects of significant cost and time, but can often come
about as the result of modest, temporary interventions and
events, in key places, at chosen times.
Our office is dedicated to the conception of interventions
likely to appeal to city residents, transforming the way in
which they view the places around them and the practices
possible in their cities.
Human beings carry within them nostalgia of a primordial
happiness from ancient times. The notion of a return to
these origins of happiness is often associated with Nature.
Our intention is to encourage inhabitants to participate in
fun, uncommon events taking place within the urban land-
scape: an inflatable bridge equipped with giant trampolines
rises above the Seine, a pavilion erected in a London park, a
museum traversed by a roller coaster.
These projects offer, in the heart of the city, new forms of
Elysian Fields, given over not to the Champs-Élysées of
shopping and strictly urban activities, but rather to funda-
mental human practices, which liberate strong emotions
calling on all our senses.
The site of this competition is the Museum Gardens, Cam-
bridge Heath Road in Bethnal Green, London. It lies within
the Tower Hamlets and Hackney boroughs. The gardens
are on the English Heritage Register for Historic Parks and
Gardens. It is approximately 1.05 hectares in size and is
surrounded by: Cambridge Heath Road, Museum Passage,
V&A Museum of Childhood, St John’s Church and Victoria
Park Square. The site’s main use is as a recreational garden
for living, working and visiting communities. Given it’s pro-
minence within the community it serves, it is clear to us that
it is important that the most is made of the site through our
pavilion.
Our project responds to the desire to create a temporary
transportable pavilion for the summer of 2013 in such a
public space, with a need for inclusion, socializing, relaxa-
tion, discussion, reflection, escape, view and enjoyment of a
high quality space.
It will provide an inspirational space where visiting architects,
designers, families and the general public can stand and
sit whilst admiring, embracing diversity and engaging with
each other in discussions about design, the importance and
benefits of peace and co-existence, or even novel stories
they have to tell in a peaceful setting.
The Museum Gardens, and nature in general are the perfect
settings to promote the idea of peace, to encourage the
sharing of joyful stories and provoking discussions about
architecture and design.
We propose a Pavilion which is visually and aesthetically
engaging. We think it is capable of providing an ideal
contemporary space which offers a sense of tranquility,
beauty and an exceptional aesthetic value to the very heart
of the Museum Gardens.
Peace is one of the highest possible human ideals. It is a
state of equilibrium; it means NO WAR, but also harmony, si-
lence, pureness, kindness, happiness, appeasement, calm,
reconciliation, serendipity, tranquility...
To express all of these ideas, we have created a perfect and
symmetrical sculpture, obtained by a precise geometrical
manipulation. The beauty of the shape lies in its perfect
symmetry and fluidity; we feel there is no need to explain
it a great deal as it is a pavilion that speaks to everyone. It
allows visitors looking at the volume for a split second to get
a sense of the pavilion and its layout with minimum effort.
The symmetrical geometry of the pavilion blurs our notions
of inside and outside, however the simple act of motion
through the exterior and interior spaces of the pavilion brin-
ging an understanding to the visitor.
The Pavilion is 4 meters in height and 20 Square meters in
area. Designed entirely with lightweight materials – 77.96m2
of PVC membrane and 20m3 of air - our project is a self-
supporting structure; it is easily scalable to inhabit larger
dimensions of other sites.
To achieve such an apparently complex shape, we unite
advanced tools of parametric design: in the study of tensile
membranes and in the geometric conception of double
curved surfaces, and digital fabrication: in the accurate
manufacturing of the pavilion using CNC cutting machines.
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