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Pine Sanctuary
Pine Sanctuary
Mississauga, Canada
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Other Projects by MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY
Pine Sanctuary
Mississauga, Canada
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Pine Sanctuary by MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY is a placemaker for Riverwood Conservancy in Mississauga. It signals the entrance to the park and provides a unique canopy for occupations of all kinds. An inviting enclosure at a scale between sculpture and architecture, at once playful and mystical, it tempts passersby to enter.
In a kind of dance, this system of branches rotates around a center point. The overall geometry is comprised of an aggregation of "Macro Shingles" which form pockets of space, blurring the lines between inside out, while increasing shadowy coverage. There's no trunk holding up this arboreal structure. Instead, it opens up into a shady space. Macro shingles resolve into branches that touch the ground lightly around a covered grove, like a redwood hollowed out.
The project is an example of the studio’s innovative "Structural Stripes"—a building system in which a continuous surface is de/composed into custom designed and digitally fabricated parts, cut from ultra-thin aluminum. Held in place as a “Bending-Active” structure, they laminate in multiple directions to create the curvilinear form of each component piece. 3,161 unique stripes are painted with fours shades of green, a blue, black and white to produce a dynamic coloration across the whole system.
Pine Sanctuary is the studio’s second public art project in Canada after Vaulted Willow, a permanent folly in Borden Park in Edmonton, commissioned by the Edmonton Arts Council.
In a kind of dance, this system of branches rotates around a center point. The overall geometry is comprised of an aggregation of "Macro Shingles" which form pockets of space, blurring the lines between inside out, while increasing shadowy coverage. There's no trunk holding up this arboreal structure. Instead, it opens up into a shady space. Macro shingles resolve into branches that touch the ground lightly around a covered grove, like a redwood hollowed out.
The project is an example of the studio’s innovative "Structural Stripes"—a building system in which a continuous surface is de/composed into custom designed and digitally fabricated parts, cut from ultra-thin aluminum. Held in place as a “Bending-Active” structure, they laminate in multiple directions to create the curvilinear form of each component piece. 3,161 unique stripes are painted with fours shades of green, a blue, black and white to produce a dynamic coloration across the whole system.
Pine Sanctuary is the studio’s second public art project in Canada after Vaulted Willow, a permanent folly in Borden Park in Edmonton, commissioned by the Edmonton Arts Council.
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