2009 Summer Pavilion by Architectural Association School of Architecture

Located in London’s Bedford Square, the Architectural Association School of Architecture has delivered their 2009 summer pavilion which called “Driftwood”. The summer pavilion’s team comprised of the concept author Danecia Sibingo, and her three team members, Lyn Hayek, Yoojin Kim, and Taeyoung Lee.

Sibingo came out with her original ‘Driftwood Space’ concept which inspired from the images of the Jordanian city of Petra. Sibingo’s ideas were manifested through a computer-generated script which manipulated the movement of lines in a continuous parallel fashion, creating line drawings which formed the basis of a plan.

Her interests revolved around carving, eroding and layering. She was joined by the other three team members who each added their own input, character and flavour to enrich the project. The final design consists of twenty-eight layers of plywood which conceal an overall internal ‘Kerto’ (a renewable spruce plywood) structural system.

Via. Photography by Nathan Willock