Vector Architects 直向建筑事务所

Harvest Pavilion

Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo

HARVEST PAVILION

Vector Architects

CATEGORY
Pavilion

LOCATION
Kunshan, China

PHOTOGRAPHS
Shu He Photo

AREA
150.0 m²

ARCHITECTS
Vector Architects

YEAR
2012

Text description provided by architect.

Sited in an Eco-farm alongside the Yang Cheng Lake, Kunshan the project consists of 4 small scale public buildings: a club house, a harvest pavilion, a botanical showroom, and an information center.

Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo
Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo

In the spring of 2012, the harvest pavilion became the first one being completed. The farm is vast, flat, and wide open to sky.

Different from the congested vertical massing image of urban life, such an empty flatness of the site is an essential nature that we believe the architecture should respond to.

Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo
Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo

Our design task is to explore how architecture should be integrated into such a context, to create a new and unique place, however harmonize with nature.

The harvest pavilion appears a simple, light, and translucent cuboid, with a horizontal thin plane hovering at the top, flying parallel with the horizon in the distance.

Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo
Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo

The plane, made of pre-fabricated aluminum rods, cantilevers out at 4 sides at various depths.

The space below becomes a transition zone from the interior to exterior, and promotes the potential activities because of the pleasant shadow casted by the canopy.

Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo
Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo

The building façade system consists of vertical laminated bamboo louvers, floor-to-ceiling frameless glass panels, and pivoting glass doors, The transparency and lightness of such a material combination visually fuse the building volume with its surrounding landscape, and make the architecture sensitive to light.

Under the condition of nice weather, when the pivoting glass doors are all rotated to open, the indoor space is literally stretched out into the farmland.

Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo
Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo
Harvest Pavilion
© Shu He Photo


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