Contemplay Pavilion By McGill School of Architecture

At the McGIll School of Architecture, a group of students designed and constructed a temporary pavilion in front of the school. This pavilion had a meaning which was to capture the multi – generational work of art by assembly the idea of consideration and playing in a single clear gesture. In addition, the name of the pavilion gives a good hint on what was the idea behind it.  Since it is a public structure it plays the socially sustainable public with the image field through form and cladding. This pavilion questions the public space furniture because of its modern approach to the realm of the abstract sculpture. 

As regards the shell it is a diagram pattern that creates a concurrent moiré and parallax effect. When the visitors approach the image field is customized and interrupted by the obstruction created by movement and two layers of cladding. The never ending surface of the mobius is covered by the visitor eye because the pavilion creates a responsive, interactive experience. Several new patterns are always created and destroyed though this mechanism of moiré as one can move around the Contemplay Pavilion. 

Mobius strip can be evolved into different surfaces which can be required as a structural solution. This is so because the simplicity of a half-twist in a ribbon was rendered. Subsequently, the solution to the whole idea was a space frame. Customized digital parametric modeling was invented so as to resolve the design criteria while achieving the moiré pattern.