Simon Langton Architecture Workshop

PAVILION.

Simon Langton Grammar School - 2013

Over the course of this workshop we would like you to explore pavilions as a typology, investigate the school as a backdrop for your ideas and formulate and produce your own proposals for a pavilion or small space within the grounds of Simon Langton.

We encourage you when exploring/choosing a site to consider both the physical and ethereal elements that make up the space. Consider how your design will relate to its environment: the surrounding buildings, massing, climatic conditions, views, materiality and its place within the school community.

The expected outcomes of this session will be to produce a considered proposal that we can discuss at the end of the day. We have outlined below a sequence of studies that will guide you through this process:

• Choosingasitewithaconsideredrationale• Investigatetheelementsthatarefoundonthesite• Initialideasthatrespect,enhance,questionoracknowledgethecontext• Developmentofideasandproductionofaphysicalmodel• Accompanying2Ddesignworktoexplainyourdesign

All this work will culminate in a presentation afternoon where you will be expected to display and explain your work to a professional standard.

BRIEF.

Rem Koolhaas 2006

The Serpentine Gallery annually commissions international architects to create a pavilion showcasing their practices architectural thinking. Thespaceactsasahostforfilmscreenings,talksand music events. The following images are a selection of these pavilions.

SERPENTINE PAVILIONS.

Olafur Eliasson 2007

Jean Nouvel 2010

Herzog & de Meuron 2012

Frank Gehry 2008

SMALL SPACES.

Worapong Manupipatpong 2012

Small spaces can provide a place to retreat, shelter, reflect or escape.Because of their modest scale, these spaces must be meticulously detailed and considered, whilst also carefully relating to their environment.

Sou Fujimoto 2008

Zaha Hadid 2011

Tom Chudleigh 2006

PacificArchitects2009

ALICEStudio2009

Broisson Architects 2007

“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their

interaction with spaces and environmental condition.”

- John Portman

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