Jubilee Pavilion

Jubilee Pavilion

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Jubilee Pavilion
© Marcus Buck

PHOTO
Marcus Buck (5), Frank Dinger (3), Michael Kneffel (1)

TYPE
Cultural › Pavilion

LOCATION
Karlsruhe, Germany

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2015

Jubilee Pavilion
© Marcus Buck

To celebrate the three-hundred year anniversary of the founding of the city of Karlsruhe, this temporary event pavilion was erected in the city's Schlossgarten.

During the festival summer various concerts, theatre performances, readings, film screenings, and exhibitions will be held in the open structure.

Jubilee Pavilion
© Frank Dinger
Jubilee Pavilion
© Frank Dinger

The pavilion offers a large auditorium with a stage: it is the center of the jubilee activities around the city and a meeting point with a café.

The twisted pattern of the pavilion refers to the strictly geometric, radial layout of the Baroque planned city of Karlsruhe with the palace as the focal point, transforming it into a spatial field of lines.

Jubilee Pavilion
© Marcus Buck
Jubilee Pavilion
© Frank Dinger

On several layers in and on the structure, exhibition platforms, resting spaces, and viewing platforms emerge.

In a competition with tendering, J. MAYER H. und Partner, Architekten and Rubner Holzbau received the commission for their proposed dynamic wood construction using bar profiles.

Jubilee Pavilion
© Marcus Buck
Jubilee Pavilion

Construction started in February 2015.

All wood provided by Rubner is supplied ready for installation on the site in order to guarantee a short and timely construction on Schlossgarten grounds.

Jubilee Pavilion
© Michael Kneffel
Jubilee Pavilion
© Marcus Buck

After the closing of the anniversary celebration from June 17th to September 2015, the temporary pavilion will be dismantled, transported and reused afterwards in another location.