Play Pavilion2.0

Project Description

Students were asked to pair up and visit the close-by City Museum in downtown St. Louis. The City Museum is a place where individuals of all ages can climb, squeeze, and slide through various obstacle courses. One was responsible for being the architect within each pair and the other a client. Based on what activity and location your client wanted, you, as the architect, had to make a space or pavilion that worked with those needs. For this project, my client wanted an area where calisthenics could be enabled within a 12x12x12ft cube. Instead of using the cube as my base for this design, I decided to manipulate it by stretching two corners of the cube to enhance the playing around of gravity. The thought of this was to abstractly represent what the body experiences while doing the activity of calisthenics. By doing so, I have made this parallelogram-like prism that allows individuals to climb and explore the area with their bodies. My client, in particular, didn't necessarily want an enclosed space, so by putting the pavilion on top of the museum, the space feels more open. The use of steel bars also generates the feeling of completeness, but not in its entirety.

Bass Wood Models - Scale 1':1"