Temporary pavilion designed by Architecture students placed in Bedford Square in Central London
As part of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) Design Research Lab's (DRL) tenth aniversary celebrations, all of the DRL's 354 graduates together with current phase 2 students, were invited to participate in a competition to design a pavilion. The competition brief called for an innovative structure that would utilise 13mm thick fibre reinforced concrete panels, normally used as a cladding material but employed structurally, to create a temporary pavilion 10m x 10m x 5m. The Swoosh Pavilion was designed and constructed by students in Intermediate Unit 2 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). Its timber components were fabricated, again by the students, at the AA's workshop in Hooke Park, Dorset. The project was an exploration of contemporary tools and techniques of architectural modelling and visualisation. It incorporated new fabrication methods and digital crafting techniques such as computer-integrated manufacturing. The aim is to experiment with - and exploit to the full - the imaginative spatial and material effects that can be extracted from these new found techniques.
Size: 3407px × 5111px
Location: Bedford Square, London, WC1
Photo credit: © Bruce McGowan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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