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The Colour Palace Pavilion

The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott

THE COLOUR PALACE PAVILION

Pricegore + Yinka Ilori

ARCHITECTS
Pricegore, Yinka Ilori

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Engineers HRW

CLIENTS
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Festival of Architecture

MANUFACTURERS
Arper, Mylands, Very Good & Proper

FABRICTORS
Raskl

PAVILION PAINT PARTNER
Mylands

PHOTOGRAPHS
Adam Scott

AREA
145.0 m2

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
London, United Kingdom

CATEGORY
Pavillion

Text description provided by architect.

This summer, the London Festival of Architecture explores ‘boundaries’ while Dulwich Picture Gallery celebrates ‘innovation’.

The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott
The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott

These themes converge in The Colour Palace; a riotous, bold architectural fusion that crosses boundaries between cultural traditions, integrating art and architecture.

The innovative timber structure is a feat of engineering using just one small size of timber with all the joints on show revealing the craftsmanship and structural logic.

The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott
The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott

For Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Colour Palace will act as a versatile public space that will be used for a variety of creative activities for visitors of all ages – from ‘Pavilion Lates’ to neon life drawing, supper clubs, storytelling, and yoga – throughout the summer.

For the London Festival of Architecture, the project is an important opportunity to celebrate London’s vibrant architectural scene and to support exciting, fresh, design talent.

Pricegore and Yinka Ilori’s Colour Palace is a testament to universal themes of color, pattern, and celebration.

The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott
The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott
The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott

The design finds parallels between African and European cultures to create a building that reflects the diverse, cultural experience of southeast London.

The Pavilion draws on many shared traditions of geometry and pattern in architecture, and the common solution of raising storage buildings on staddle stones.

Raised on monumental feet, the lightweight structure is assembled from thousands of individual pieces of hand-painted timber.

The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott
The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott
The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott

The combination of these elements creates facades of bold geometric pattern that shift and merge according to viewpoint recalling the fabric markets of Lagos, Nigeria.

Internally, the Pavilion resembles a small theatre-in-the-round, and visitors can climb to a perimeter gantry held within the depth of the slender structure.

The squat volume of the Pavilion is informed by the cubic composition of Soane’s Grade II* listed Dulwich Picture Gallery, next to which it sits in close and contrasting proximity.

The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott


The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott
The Colour Palace Pavilion
© Adam Scott


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Section A
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Ground Floor Plan
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Construction Section
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