Location Client Marsden St, Chesterfield N/A
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"common's room" temporary pavillion
A week-long project in collaboration with Frank Peers and Alankrita Malaviya, The brief for this project was to create a temporary pavilion for the public to revitalise a generally bland area of Chesterfield. Key words extracted from the brief to align the project with were ‘tectonic’, ‘learning’ and ‘deconstruction’.
As per the key word ‘learning’, this pavilion focuses on a detailed site analysis and the idea that there is an unstructured gap between the residential and commercial sides of Chesterfield. Conveniently, the dedicated site was a car park that sat on the divide between these two areas; this informed the idea of dedicating this space as a ‘letter library’, where workers who would commute in and out of Chesterfield can have the opportunity to briefly interact with locals through direct verbal interaction or through letters within the books available to prompt learning from each other
Borrowing principles from former temporary pavilions like ‘Pensieve’ in New Delhi and the annual ‘Serpentine Pavilion’ in Kensington, this proposal follows an extensively sustainable and deconstruct-able approach. For example, the use of a wider site analysis at 1:40000 scale to highlight regional sources for materiality and the areas it can be donated to post-deconstruction ( outlined further in the lifecycle diagram ); also highlighting calculations for the embodied carbon of the build. The principal use of pallets additionally provided a distinct low-carbon solution, as they would be sourced from a used pallet retailer 14 minutes from the site and then donated to schools afterwards to be repurposed into structures for school playgrounds, further continuing the cycle of learning for future generations.
Special engineering also went into the temporary bracing of the structure, utilising steel scaffolding fixed onto carbon concrete blocks and scaffold swivel joints. Additional detail also went into bearing mechanisms for engineered pallet bookshelf doors which rotated at a pivot.
As for the solar aspect, the pallet structure embraced a variety of interesting light forms within the interior and exterior, utilising the deep sun from east / west perspectives and solar shading from cantilevered canvas material. Light and heating within the pavilion could also be manually controlled with a retractable awning and pulley system.
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