Nahida, age 13

‘When creating my Pavilion, I pictured a scrunched piece of paper with vibrant transparent colour incorporated into every crease. In order to display this, I used fragments of dusky blue and crystalline white acrylic twisted together in a fusion of vivid colour.’

Jasmine, age 10

Peter, age 10

Amy, age 10

‘I was twisting a cut out spiral in different ways and I stopped when I liked the shape. I love reading so wanted to make a Reading Pavilion and I thought that a decoration of letters, the same as the pages of a book would be a good idea. It would be a place to relax and read so I have called it the ‘Readax Pavilion’.

Aaron, age 10

Anaira, age 9

Arne, age 10

Nadir, age 13

Caspar, age 11

Hannah, age 14

Zain, age 10

‘I designed a Pavilion using metallic mesh, building sticks and coloured straws. It has a roof that is see-through but keeps out the rain. It can be a space to sit or play inside, maybe a place to read or talk to friends.’

Diego, age 13

Yash, age 13

Zaid, age 10

‘My Pavilion is a star with a dome roof.  I used match sticks for my base, support on the sides and roof.  I used colour paper to give it more of a bright theme.  I have tiny people around it to give more of a real life theme.  I used glue gun to stick everything together.’

Tisya, age 9

‘Cubic. Modern buildings are very cube shaped and square, so I thought that a quadrilateral based building would be good. Also because it would pop up in the summer you could sit at the top without a roof. There is a lift which goes up and down to two levels, the bridge one and the blue painted one.’

Tara, age 10

‘My Pavilion was inspired by flames and fire. I used were pipe cleaners, punchinella and for the base I used match sticks.  The pipe cleaners were representing sparks of fire and so were the pipe cleaners sticking out of the board.’

Sumaiya, age 14

‘My Pavilion is a pentagonal prism made of half pentagons. It is a mosaic of shapes and colours. My inspiration came from the atom of buckminsterfullerene, which is an allotrope of carbon, called after architect Buckminster Fuller. So I created a dome that was made of random asymmetric shapes.’

Naias, age 10

‘My Pavilion was inspired by water. At first I wanted to cover the whole structure with material, just with a few entrances, but then I decided to  make my design more original and cover the structure with smaller pieces of silver and blue material to represent waves.’

Melania, age 13

‘My inspiration  was the ‘Umaturka’, Aymara for the exchange of water, which is a ritual to call for rain in the dry Andean plateau of Bolivia, that my parents have been documenting for many years.’

Louis-Ray, age 9

‘My Pavilion is called “Change the World” and I have literally changed the world in my design! Antarctica is the big roof and Australia is the floor and Africa is smaller and is the roof of the yellow cafe. Other countries are jumbled up on the plastic wall at the back of my Pavilion.’

Damir, age 10

‘My Pavilion is called Rainbow Pavilion. It is a meeting point for people. Inside there is a seating area for people to listen to concerts and other fun shows. It is also used for shelter from rain. It is made from colourful sticks (wood.) The transparent plastic represents glass. On the top is a golden mesh represents the sun.’

Araya, age 9

‘My Pavilion was built to look at the world in different ways, and feel things in different ways, so the windows are multicoloured, and the floor has different textures and colours. My Pavilion is also a shop that sells every ice-cream flavour in the whole world!’

Allegra, age 8

‘I wanted a water fountain in my design, and colourful ribbons to decorate the columns. I used different textures and surfaces to make the Pavilion interesting to sit inside. Everyone will use the Pavilion to come and visit.’

Rebecca, age 10

‘I was inspired by umbrellas because they come in many colours and shapes. The cellophane gives a look of umbrellas and the matchsticks look like umbrella handles which makes them realistic. The black card on the bottom makes the colours really pop.’

Oliver, age 11

‘My design was inspired by jellyfish in the sea. I chose this because if I made a mistake I could change it easily and I thought it was quite unique. It is made out of blue plastic and blue lolly sticks, pipe cleaners and modelling clay  to keep the scene going. It was designed mainly for a child’s taste.’