[c]space Pavilion, a temporary structure designed by architects Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang, has opened in London.
Constructed in front of the Architectural Association, the design last year won a competition to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the AA’s Design Research Laboratory.
More info on the design and the competition in our earlier story.
Photos are by Valerie Bennett.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
April 9th, 2008 at 12:03 am
WOW!!!!….great proposal
April 9th, 2008 at 12:10 am
great but 2 times bigger it would have been cooler
April 9th, 2008 at 2:59 am
does it seldom rain in front of AA?
April 9th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Yeah yeah, we know the rhino-laserC-assembly routine
…Anything useful coming from the oh-so-advanced paperless architectural studios nowadays? Shouldn’t all these ‘design research labs’ be focusing on doing something actually useful like ‘design research work’ instead of doing useless fibercement clams?…
April 9th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Breathtaking. I would love to see it in person.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:18 am
yeah .. i thought it will be bigger too.. but nice
April 9th, 2008 at 4:28 am
is it waterproof?
April 9th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Where is the spiral seating from the proposal (http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/04/cspace-pavilion-by-alan-dempsey-and-alvin-huang/) ??
Great structure and beautiful from created from those slats. Its flat pack IKEA architecture!
April 9th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
fibrecement.. rööööhhh!!!
i know what you talk about yespmed. or at least, i guess. i saw aa & itü ’s installation once fibreous structues here in istanbul, and really i didnt get it ether. but come on.. show me that you have the scripting abilities of theverymany.net or just anything you did, that stands out? for me this is a very nice example outcome of design research and finding new ways of realisation. you have to practice that a bit, and so those things come to life. a bit of a bigger scale would make a better impression though..
its easy to brag about paperless studios, but its simply that they do not perceive architectural/design work the way it was 20 years ago. there’s nothing wrong with that.
April 9th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
it’s ok…
April 9th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Wouldn’t streets look alot better if more urban planners utilised design concepts such as this ( a bus stop for instance ). Like, or dis-like its a step it the right direction - it has my vote.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Does anyone know how long it is going to stay there?
April 9th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Glorified Gazebo
I was in London a couple weeks ago. There is a problem with how the slats meet each other. The joint is a clumsy rubber block that detracts heavily from the form. A shape like this has to be perfect or it looks sloppy.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
the most beautiful folly ever ! very advanced geometry… though the bracketing method is similar to zaha’s urban nebula, the splicing method of archaic wood joist is replaced by voids supported by scattered bracket points. impressive
April 9th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Kuryoki,
dude, it’s not about scripting. Or is architecture being taught now at computer engineering schools instead of schools of architecture?
Show me how you’ll take this technology and put people to live in it.
Huh?
April 10th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Great !
I visited the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 02/08 and I was so amazed by its beauty. These pictures show the magnificiant of surface understanding and one simply can do nothing but love it.
I see now that we can do anything we want. The only thing we have to do is to know what we want… thereafter the universal law of attraction starts functioning perfect. See more at my research page: http://www.debatcode.com
April 10th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
WASTE
OF
MATERIAL
April 10th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
what is this macaya ?
sculpture : nice
Architecture: ???
April 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
and another movement/speed glorifying little structure.
the first image is revealing…
does anyone EVER question the notion that quickness=progress, speed=future????
what is wrong with a structure that embodies permanence and time, and more to the point, that invites people to stay in and shelters adequately from the elements….
April 11th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
when the colored lens dims the glance one sees the things of one single color
April 12th, 2008 at 12:16 am
too many L-brackets and bolts….goodluck putting it together