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Designed as the pivotal exhibit for the Minneapolis symposium, “Architecture and the Psyche,” this pavilion investigates and exaggerates architectural experience, specifically enclosure, comfort, vulnerability, and voyeurism. The pavilion, expanding upon Locus explorations into material and light, combines material, light, and the idea that transparency can dramatically change within a static object. The pavilion, almost nonexistent from a distance, requires interaction to become visible architecture. At first glance, it is space with neither exterior nor interior, a frame without intention. Through the unique construction of translucent cellular walls, the pavilion dematerializes at a distance of 46’-3” (at the 23° viewcone necessary to view the entire object) and becomes essentially transparent. The structure ceases to define or contain space. However, upon approaching the box, the pavilion becomes increasingly opaque, providing its occupants defensive space from would-be intruders. In order to view inside, the voyeur must remain distant in order to allow the visual transfer of movement. Within the pavilion, occupants at a foreshortened distance to the surface, are afforded the false perception of privacy in a contained space. TOP |
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