Belvedere Pavilion / Kawahara Krause Architects
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Text description offered by the architects. Belvedere was in-built Hamburg’s central park Planten un Blomen as a part of the “Hamburger Architektur Sommer” (the Hamburg structure triennial) and to mark the 30th anniversary of town partnership between Hamburg and Osaka. Designed by Kawahara Krause Architects and with a color idea by Japanese artist Nobuko Watabiki, the pavilion capabilities as an interplay of artwork and structure and creates a quiet retreat within the fluid area of the huge park. As a public platform it invitations guests to get pleasure from and expertise new views of this fashionable and acquainted park.
With the pavilion being a brief construction of solely 4 weeks, the chance to disassemble it into its elements performed a giant position within the design course of as a lot as the selection of the development supplies. Developed as a reciprocal construction, the structural system consists of many small, straightforward to deal with components. Next to being straightforward to move and assemble with out using massive equipment, this additionally permits for a easy building on website. Only reversible joints (interlocking or screwing) had been used within the pavilion as to ensure the recyclability of the supplies wooden and paper after dismantling.
The roof construction is manufactured from cardboard. On a single curved line, rectangular sheets had been minimize into two components with out losing materials: a convex and a concave half. By assembling the convex and concave components in numerous instructions along with the differing colors chosen by Nobuko Watabiki, this very rational roof construction now seems layered and multi-faceted. Depending on one’s viewpoint, the concave and convex components appear to both align neatly, or interlock arbitrarily.
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