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Dec 17

As currently envisioned, the cultural olympiad exists as a series of disparate events spread around London in time and space. Our response functions as a system for deployment and concentration of these events.

By designing in a capacity for dynamism we were able to create an adaptive system that can respond to a variety of influences. In addition to the ability for individual boats to migrate around the city to support various events and concentrate in different densities and configurations on the main site, each boat is equipped with a dynamic canopy capable of shifting its form. These canopies can negotiate climatic impact by responding to sun, wind, and light, they can act as cultural amplifiers by responding to human activity, or their behavior can be choreographed to support the specific design intent for a cultural event.

These behavioral capacities exist at the unit level, but also take on entirely new aggregated effects when the units group together in larger configurations. The result is a constantly fluctuating landscape, able to support a dynamic and varied array of events and activities. This fluctuating landscape gives a presence and identity to the London Cultural Olympiad. By concentrating dispersed events in one location it allows for a vibrancy that would otherwise be lacking. The reverse is also true. At times this landscape breaks apart and disperses around London utilizing the existing network of waterways as a tool to stitch together the cultural events which comprise the Olympiad.

Moving forward this system will remain vibrant because of its capacity to synergize cultural events. It will exist as a series of ebbs and flows - fluctuating daily, weekly and seasonally as concentrations of cultural events taking place in London shift. In its scale and composition the proposal blurs the lines between urban design, landscape, and architecture, while its dynamism, which is driven by human cultural interaction, blurs the line between the static built environment and fluid cultural actor.

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Dec 12

Final Review - Martin & Mo

Creating a synthesis of pattern, structure and form this pavilion achieves new datum and environments within Hyde Park. It is located in close proximity to vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle access as well as major events of the Olympic Games held in Hyde Park. The roofscape surface serves as access to new elevations in the park bringing the user into the tree canopy and granting new views through the park space. Beneath the roof surface a new environment is created utilizing light filtration and aeroponic growth systems that will create a cool mist in the summer heat and an eventual legacy of new tree plantings. The pavilion will serve as an elevated event viewing space, exhibition and nighttime venue, and park visitor gathering site.

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Dec 12