035 E, D, E, N, Pavilion

Location of the pavilion in the park.

The letters, E, D, E, N are used as struts between floor and ceiling. Picture H shows a photomontage of the pavilion with model and photo of the park, picture L shows the column-like stretched “D” in the model.

The drawn pages from a project presentation enhance the minimalist character of the pavilion with their graphic means. Especially the floor and ceiling panels remind one of Minimal Art paintings. The geometry points to the largest possible taking back of the newly designed cultural space into the existing nature.

The pavilion integrates itself quite nicely into the environment of the park landscape without losing its presence. The visitor is surprised by the subliminal play between natural and artificial form. The black concrete adequately distinguishes itself from the green and brown in the park. The broken-up roof of the concrete grid can be experienced as the architectural translation of a roof of leaves with its flickering light. The floor plate is on the level of the grass and visually seems to distinguish itself from the grass only through a different spatial depth. The supports connect with the tree trunks into a group of verticals, oscillating between nature and technology. Only from one location can the four letters be read as the word EDEN; otherwise, they tend to fall into meaningless, architecturally bound forms with biomorphic allusions, answering to the rather arbitrary park landscape.