Project Description

EXHIBITION PAVILION UNDER THE HIGH LINE

LOCATION: New York, USA
YEAR: 2013
STATUS: Competition

The aim of this project is to create a very simple as well as natural space that can be a new urban experience for the visitors who can meet art and design in an unusual place. Light, perspective, circulation and materials are the main design factors.

Light: during the day the sunlight filters through the white wooden poles to illuminate the interior of the exposition pavilions also creating interesting and evocative shadows. In the night the three “cylinders” become the “lighting system” of the area themselves.

Circulation and Perspective: the circulation has been studied in order to create free and dynamic pathways in the areas between the three pavilions which, with their elevation create several different perspective views.

Material: wood is natural, organic, lightweight, strong, easily accessible and recyclable; for all these reasons the project is 100% made of it. The wooden poles are painted with 100% natural white paint to give more brightness to the project area avoiding noxious substances.

All these points together generate a small, natural and primordial “corner” to relax in one of the most anthropical cities in the world.