This past week I have spent my time working with real architects from the Panterhudsmith firm who helped me and other students learn more about architecture including things like the processes taken to reach designs, different features of buildings and more. On Wednesday a pair of architects came into our school and showed us some photos of different pavilions and two caught my interest. It was those photos that inspired me to build mine in the way I did.

My idea was to create a space that interested people and helped people to feel comfortable. This in turn would allow them to socialise and relax with others.

My pavilion is designed to be located within a big central park, for example Hyde park or Green Park in London.

The material I would use for my design would include: corten steel for the tree; glass orbs filled with water for the numerous spheres; steel beams, to support the ground orbs; polished granite for the flooring and a Perspex canopy.

My pavilion is a good public space because of what it represents. When you enter the enclosed area of the pavilion, you feel like you’re within yourself and this provokes introspective thought. But as you look up to the greater canopy of the tree above, your thought changes focus to the world around you, and possibly your impact on it. I used the tree as thought provoking because the unusual twist on the natural form of the tree allows you to reconsider the functionalities of things around you. The tree is also used to symbolise knowledge which encourages deeper thought.