Present-times Garden
At the sight of the Queen’s Garden in Melbourne, Sean Godsell was commissioned to build a temporary pavilion. His structure worked like a flower; through its kinetic mechanism, the steel walls would open with the sunrise and close down at night.
The movement was synchronized with the day cycle, allowing the pavilion to subtly integrate into the landscape of the city center garden.
The responsive interaction that the structure periodically underwent, was a showcase of possibilities of kinetic deconstruction through mechanisation.
This process influenced also the program of the pavilion at a given moment in the day, in a way challenging the notion of a static shelter.
With the daylight the vast oppenes of the structure blurs the line between a shelter and the landscape, addressing both simultaneously.
The goal of my model was a sculptural iteration of the deconstrction of the pavilion.
Firstly a steel skeleton to define the contour of the structure, on top a curtain made out of metal strips that can be moved individually.
The division of the space happens from the inside out, through the three walls out of beeswax, with a property of softening up with heat, potentially allowing parts of the walls to bend, allowing for the wall to be transformed.
