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Contemporary Pavilion: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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A pavilion is a small, open or partly enclosed structure, historically used for exhibitions, gatherings, and shelter. Contemporary pavilions reinterpret this type through new materials, digital fabrication, and programs that range from sensory installations to community forums and teaching spaces. They are frequently temporary, which allows designers to test ideas at a human scale with lighter constraints than permanent buildings.

Members on uni.xyz share work that places pavilions in dialogue with heritage sites, such as a mirror pavilion referencing fortified history in Armenia and a sensory installation inside a modernist hospital in Barcelona. Other entries explore natural materials like bamboo, lightweight structures, and the tension between monumental and domestic scales.

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Jahanvi

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Pavilion Two Leaves

Pavilion Two Leaves is a volume inspired by the gentle leaf forms fallen on ground, superimposed together to create shelter with a fascinating variability of spaces catering to varying weather conditions. The parametric structure inspired by natural forms is realized by steel sections and terracotta tiles to create a peaceful and sustainable abode for all.

YUZHI and JIARU

One day in Medieval Underground Museum

This is a museum showing the history and culture of medieval Turkish underground tunnel system. Visitors need to shuttle through the intricate ventilation pipes to find the entrance of the underground museum, and then dress up as people living underground in the Middle Ages in the form of cosplay for immersive experience.

YAJIE and 3 others

Design for Huddle-Circle Forum

This architecture design in the English garden can be regarded as an example of micro-construction pocket forums located in the center spots of the city. These forums will be open space for the elderly who can gather, stay and enjoy life in their familiar communities and places, and selectively enrich themselves with teens against the elapsed time.

Василий and 2 others

AQUATIC

Caring for the ecology of our planet, especially conserving water is the main inspiration of our project development.

Hermann

PIXA

PIXA is a flexible and modular tool or structure which can be easily assembled to create a tiny, large and largest structure by replication using a single unit. The Interior space of the steel structure is defined by two abstract natural elements ?light and shades?. The fabric is defining a spatial disposal for each module, this is the flexibility.

Gerardo

BIO-MORPHOS PAVILION (VARIATION 02)

This project explores the threshold between structural performance and organic morphology through contemporary computational design. Developed using advanced parametric workflows, the structure materializes as a seamless semi-covered pavilion designed to redefine user experience within a fluid space. By shifting away from traditional box-like architecture,

Pranav

Bamboo Tree Pavilion

A pavilion structure that is inspired from the bamboo tree. The support structure for the pavilion has columns that are similar to the bamboo tree. The column supports of the pavilion are inspired from natural way in which the bamboo tree grows. The curving roof showcases an organic and flowy nature, spreading away from each other like a tree branch.

Stephanie and Jack

Lifted Ground: Between the Sublime and Domestic

At the homestead, the realms of nature, production, and domestic meet under one roof. The boundaries are blurred between a wild “sublime” nature, worked agricultural land, and the domestic sheltered interior. The passage of time is registered in the architecture's embrace of the earth’s inherent tendency toward a wild nature.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults3 days ago

Wave 'Coral': Four Perforated Canopies Bring Human Scale to a Monumental Plaza

A wavy lattice shell repeated four times around an obelisk, turning a vast paved square into pockets of shade, planting and places to sit.

Landscape Design

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedResults3 days ago

Exhibition Pavilion of Reptiles: A Lizard-Shaped Shell Rising From Its Own Moat

A white lattice shell on branching legs lifts its head from the water, turning the theme of a reptile exhibition into the building itself.

Cultural Architecture

Installations

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog3 days ago

PARA Floats a Split-Open Canal House on Fifteen Pontoons for the 2021 Bruges Triennale

A temporary timber pavilion docked beside an abandoned 15th-century canal house in Bruges, unfolding the city's hidden layers without touching its ground.

Religious Building

Installations

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog3 days ago