Project

Stretch Pavilion

Collaborators: Tomiha Metcalf

Year: 2023

Category: Cultural Architecture

Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, Rhino

The stretch pavilion is designed to transform Surrey’s Civic Plaza and pull visitors in to experience the new evolving downtown culture. Named after its use of latex sheeting, this pavilion capitalizes on the material's flexibility and pushes its tensile capability to capture those iconic skin-tight ripples. Set on a grid, the interior of this interactive pavilion spirals and coils through a series of strategic moves for its occupants to encounter from every entry. Encompassing the interactive grid from above is a sheet of latex material, twisted to give ample opportunities for light as you navigate the space down below. The warm color scheme is meant to breathe life into the concrete city where it resides and drive visitors from Surrey and around the globe to interact at the site and the surrounding downtown area.

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Board 1

Board 1 has a southeast axonometric drawing of the pavilion as well as a site plan and a brief description of the proposed design.

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Board 2

Board 2 has a plan cut and exploded southwest exploded axonometric drawing demonstrating how the layers of material fit with the proposed grid.

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Board 3

Board 3 is a southeast section axonometric drawing with an added construction detail showing how the steel columns that make up the grid interact with the ground and latex material.

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Board 4

Board 4 has photos of a physical model of the design proposal edited to showcase the warm color scheme previously represented by linework. The image in the top corner is a material detail from one of the various moves made on the top layer of fabric.

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Board 5

Board 5 is an interior perspective photo taken in the physical model.

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Tomiha Metcalf