Sommer Pavilion
KWY.studio (Ricardo Gomes with Ruggero Agnolutto, Rui Alves, Rebecca Billi and Sara Cálem) with Eduardo Corales
Sommer Pavillion, Competition
Cascais, Portugal
The proposal intended to generate a fundamental element with a permeable character, defined by a vulnerable and transient limit. The pavilion’s form establishes distinct places according to the necessary interiority, using water as an active building material which creates playful spaces: a device capable of adapting to the necessities of a public space and its programming. Its performativity corresponds to the ephemeral character of the pavilion as a mutable artefact in the permeability of its boundaries.
The pavilion is drawn by two eccentric circumferences producing a differentiated internal space. When near the perimeter is a covered walkway which visually articulates the two gardens; when apart they produce a qualified and multifunctional space according to the defined programme. The inner garden is an intensified experience of the exterior park: it contains a structure, a hierarchy and a geographical context articulated with the surrounding garden, however it is a singular entity, limited by a momentary perimeter which is transformed throughout the day by the diversity of its inhabiting and the uncertainty of its border.
KWY.studio (Ricardo Gomes with Ruggero Agnolutto, Rui Alves, Rebecca Billi and Sara Cálem) with Eduardo Corales
Sommer Pavillion, Competition
Cascais, Portugal
The proposal intended to generate a fundamental element with a permeable character, defined by a vulnerable and transient limit. The pavilion’s form establishes distinct places according to the necessary interiority, using water as an active building material which creates playful spaces: a device capable of adapting to the necessities of a public space and its programming. Its performativity corresponds to the ephemeral character of the pavilion as a mutable artefact in the permeability of its boundaries.
The pavilion is drawn by two eccentric circumferences producing a differentiated internal space. When near the perimeter is a covered walkway which visually articulates the two gardens; when apart they produce a qualified and multifunctional space according to the defined programme. The inner garden is an intensified experience of the exterior park: it contains a structure, a hierarchy and a geographical context articulated with the surrounding garden, however it is a singular entity, limited by a momentary perimeter which is transformed throughout the day by the diversity of its inhabiting and the uncertainty of its border.
