Recently, Tent London & The Art Fund Prize sponored a competition to design a semi-permenant summer pavilion for the Lightbox Museum. Amongst all of the criteria, the gyst is that it needed to be a flex space to  house a number of various art pieces (standing, hanging, etc.), allow for presentations, and be a place for informal gathering.

In addition, it was to be designed such that a local design and fabrication firm (FACIT), could use their system to produce the product within 72 hours (on-site build time).

The following is my entry, entitled Matryoshka. The project is based around a proposition that a system of volumes be nested within one another in an ultra-efficient cube, and their ultimate extension results in new program-specific space. I found the most liberating thing about the project was that it was an exercise in restraint – from the site, to the programmatic stipulations, cost and highly specific construction methodology, the design had to satisfy a number of constraints.

The winning entry was from Tina Manis, and was highly effective.

Enjoy

MS