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Flowing Light Pavilion to be featured at Sydney Architecture Festival

Published: 01-Sep-2010

The Flowing Light Pavilion – an innovative pavilion designed by three architecture students from the University of Sydney- has been selected for the CH4 Competition as part of the fourth annual Sydney Architecture Festival in Australia.

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The focus for the competition has been an investigation of recycled materials and their transformation into exciting new event spaces. Architecture students worked together in teams to produce evocative proposals such as towers of compressed aluminium cans, giant folding fabric pleats and a grid of large moving puzzle blocks.

The new Flowing Light Pavilion to be exhibited in front of Customs House will explore how fabric can change the scope of people's engagement with architecture. It has been created using technologies and techniques developed in the Digital Architecture Research Studio. The pavilion features synthetic fabric to provide a new way for people to engage with architecture. The structure offers audience a confrontation with traditional architectural notions of enclosure, light and shadow, context and environment. All these areas are provided with new scope through the inventive use of fabric.

The pavilion tries to explore fabric’s vulnerability to change, a theme that is largely unexplored in the world of architecture. The pavilion examines the ability of fabric to reflect the direction of the wind or the movement of a person and the way this movement can alter light and shadow in a given space.

The students have mainly made use of recycled banner materials from the City of Sydney. They have integrated solar photovoltaic lighting technology into the project resulting in an illuminating pavilion structure at night.

The pavilion will be exhibited in the forecourt of Customs House from 20-31 October 2010. The annual Sydney Architecture Festival celebrates the city's architecture and aims to engage the public in exploring aspects in the built environment.

The Ch4 Competition is one of the latest additions to the festival program, which starts from 20 October 2010. It is an initiative of the Government Architect's Office and The Sydney Architecture Festival in collaboration with Customs House to showcase student architecture. It gives students an opportunity to design and construct a temporary pavilion in the forecourt of Customs House, a dynamic cultural destination and venue for the festival. Last year 4,500 people attended the activities at Customs House.

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