Concept

Theatrical performances traditionally abide by an accepted set of cultural conventions regarding the organizational layout of the stage, the proscenium, and the audience. There’s a clear hierarchy, axial order and an agreed upon set of protocols regarding the clear and absolute delineation between the spatial realms of reality and fiction.

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In contrast, the Double Bloom Pavilion proposes a more robust and opportunistic role for the architecture envelope by offering a variety of performative territorites that co-exist simultaneously. Through the careful deployment of a single surface that inverts from inside to outside while always maintaining the primary pragmatic requirement of serving a large outdoor open-air public assembly space, the Pavilion’s novel figuration mobilizes the full panoramic space encomposing the entire structure.

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The sudden and unexpected appearance of two vertical oculi as windows to the sky, the surreal discovery of a conical shroud permanently suspended like a magic trick above the ground, and the heroic launch of a tapered cantilever roof out into space recalling our insatiable desire for flight, constitute as a series of isolated moments the poetic aspiration of a new typology of outdoor performance structures.  

Fabrication

The structural core of the Pavilion is comprised of 40 steel grid units bolted together. A total of 127 fiber-glass resin cladding panels are applied creating the impression of one continuous surface from all directions.