A shade, plays in many ways, it may be a pavilion, may hold many functions. It may be a playful insight of innovative solutions with new materials, joineries, assembling and dissembling the pavilion. It seems to be quite exciting to design a multipurpose pavilion which will be completely collapsible as well. And which will be built in reality as per your design in a mega design festival like the Tent London Design Festival! And it will be moved to a permanent home which is a RIBA Award winning masterpiece ‘The Lightbox’.The Tent London Design Festival has already become a major design event in Europe. This year it will be held on 24-27 September at Truman Brewery near Brick Lane, London.
The site: Red mark shows the final destination of the pavilion
The Art Fund is UK’s leading art charity. They are funding this competition of designing a multipurpose pavilion. Initially the winning design will be built in the Tent London Design Festival Venue and later it will be moved to its permanent home just beside The Lightbox, designed by Marks Barfield Architects. Lightbox is an art gallery and museum and this pavilion will provide some extra space for exhibition and other purposes. The pavilion foot print will be 35sqm (376.6 sft). And it has to be designed intended to serve as:
1. As an exhibition space
2. As a formal presentation space
3. An informal gathering or party space
An architecture, design and construction company named Facit will be engineering, fabricating and installing the project. So the submitted design must be designed to work using their manufacturing and construction techniques.
Eligibility: Anyone can participate; registration is open and free of cost
Deadline: 3rd March, 2009
Submission: 4 A2 sheets by post.
See details in the Competition Website, The site, Registration and other links:
