The Linear Pavilion

Architecture Concept Design

Background

The brief was to design a pavilion defined by linear elements and to incorporate water as an abstract component.

Inspiration & Concept Development

A weekend spent watching my nephew rope-climb at a playground introduced the idea of a suspended canopy. That insight evolved through hands-on cardboard studies-twisting strips into a forest canopy, then testing bent arches. Over time, bending was abandoned altogether, reducing the system to straight elements. The project focused on distilling many ideas into a single structural rule and pushing it to its limits.

Outcome

The pavilion is generated from one repeating pattern: two wooden sticks joined at a precise point, with the length of one progressively altered to form an arch without bending the material. Slots cut into the base anchor the structure on one end and reference a shoreline on the other, with a wave-cresting sculpture added to complete the scene.