ANTEPAVILION
PUP Architects
ARCHITECST
PUP Architects
PHOTOGRAPHS
Jim Stevenson
LOCATION
Greater London, United Kingdom
YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Pavilion, Small Scale
AREA
15 m²
ENGINEERS
AKT
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Theo Molloy, Chloe Leen, Steve Wilkinson
Text description provided by architect.
The pavilion invites discussion about the occupation of the city's rooftops by highlighting relaxed permitted development rights.
It suggests that if dwellings could be disguised as air conditioning equipment, thousands of micro houses could be built across the city providing new homes.
Covertly extrovert, the snaking linear form is functional yet surprisingly sculptural and is clad in silver shingles cut from reject Tetra-Pak printed roll.
The Antepavilion has been built by PUP with the assistance of carpenters and a team of volunteers, and technical support from structural engineers, AKTii.
PUP Architects said: “While permitted development exists for large scale infrastructural roof installations, a little challenge has been made for other viable.
And productive uses for rooftops. By subverting the form of the permitted and giving it a non-standard use, we hope to bring into question this order of priorities.
