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The Pavilion House
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Type
STATUS
Concept
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
The Pavilion House | Between Glass and Ground
by Studio Khora
Studio Khora’s Pavilion House emerges from the coastal stillness of Long Island not as a form imposed, but as a response—a reflection suspended between Mies van der Rohe’s clarity and the untamed texture of the terrain. This is not merely a house; it is a question posed in glass, steel, and stone.
Inspired by Mies’s Barcelona Pavilion, the project begins with homage—planar geometry, minimalist materiality, and the pursuit of weightless monumentality. Yet, in the hands of Studio Khora, this homage becomes estrangement. What was once a modernist declaration becomes a site of deconstruction. The Pavilion does not replicate Mies—it disturbs him, gently.
Where Mies pursued universality, Khora invites contradiction. The house opens itself to the terrain—an uneven, living manuscript of Long Island—inviting the earth to disrupt the line, to blur the edge, to reflect itself in the glass not as a background, but as a co-author. Nature does not surround the house; it infiltrates it.
Here, structure and landscape converse in a direct architectural language, refusing hierarchy. The volumes hover, yet remain grounded. Transparency is not clarity—it is a veil, a provocation. The inhabitant is no longer at the center but becomes a reader of spatial traces, moving through a syntax of openness, reflection, and interruption.
Studio Khora’s Pavilion House is both memory and mutation—a glass pavilion that recalls Mies, while slipping beyond him into something more elusive, more poetic. A shelter that dissolves, a structure that listens, a narrative written in shadow and silence.
by Studio Khora
Studio Khora’s Pavilion House emerges from the coastal stillness of Long Island not as a form imposed, but as a response—a reflection suspended between Mies van der Rohe’s clarity and the untamed texture of the terrain. This is not merely a house; it is a question posed in glass, steel, and stone.
Inspired by Mies’s Barcelona Pavilion, the project begins with homage—planar geometry, minimalist materiality, and the pursuit of weightless monumentality. Yet, in the hands of Studio Khora, this homage becomes estrangement. What was once a modernist declaration becomes a site of deconstruction. The Pavilion does not replicate Mies—it disturbs him, gently.
Where Mies pursued universality, Khora invites contradiction. The house opens itself to the terrain—an uneven, living manuscript of Long Island—inviting the earth to disrupt the line, to blur the edge, to reflect itself in the glass not as a background, but as a co-author. Nature does not surround the house; it infiltrates it.
Here, structure and landscape converse in a direct architectural language, refusing hierarchy. The volumes hover, yet remain grounded. Transparency is not clarity—it is a veil, a provocation. The inhabitant is no longer at the center but becomes a reader of spatial traces, moving through a syntax of openness, reflection, and interruption.
Studio Khora’s Pavilion House is both memory and mutation—a glass pavilion that recalls Mies, while slipping beyond him into something more elusive, more poetic. A shelter that dissolves, a structure that listens, a narrative written in shadow and silence.
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