演讲者和评委休息室丨葡萄牙里斯本丨Cook Haffner Architecture Platform

Architects:Cook Haffner Architecture Platform

Area:120m²

Year:2022

Photographs:Cong Ding,Fiona Castiñeira

Lead Architects:Sir Peter Cook

Design Lead:Jenna De Leon

Design Team:Cong Ding, Pablo Wheldon, Ronghua Lei

Clients:ABB

City:Lisbon

Country:Portugal

Text description provided by the architects. An innovative and delightful pavilion at the World Architecture Festival is the most recent collaboration between CHAP, led by architect futurologist Sir Peter Cook, and the leading digital technology company ABB. Cook Haffner Architecture Platform (known as CHAP) has recently been commissioned by ABB to design an innovative and delightful ‘Judges and Speakers Lounge’ for the World Architecture Festival (known as WAF) taking place between 30th December and 2nd of January 2022 at Feira Internacional de Lisboa. As the first major event post-pandemic, Katrin Förster of ABB said ‘…this meant for me that ABB´s long-established headline partnership with WAF would have to become something to “grasp”, to “feel” and “experience” again during this year´s live event. Therefore, we needed to find a new spirit, a new excitement, a brand new approach, to come back with a big bang …..’

‘Sir Peter and his team at CHAP were delighted to start designing. And what a fabulous lounge has been conceived. Bold with intense green elements, walls that curve and twist, different layers, lit from below, and peepholes to catch a glimpse. In addition, colorful excerpts from drawings by Sir Peter and project renderings. Superb!’

The eventful space is designed to be visually appealing and eye-catching, with ‘necks’ and ‘beaks’ popping out from the casket and skin, also being highly visible from distance in the busy festival landscape. The role of Peter’s drawings is reconsidered and being experimented with here – they become part of the architecture, along with the peek-holes, not only connecting the inside and the outside but also merging the interactive experience with the playful architecture. Quotes from architect Sir Peter Cook; The Speakers and Judges Lounge for WAF Lisbon was designed to accommodate forty or more people sitting at tables. The team of Cong Ding, Pablo Wheldon, and Ronghua Lei, working under the Direction of Sir Peter Cook devised a quick construction ‘casket’ that displayed fragments of Cook’s drawn and built work. In particular, it took advantage of the ‘sandwich’ construction of the curved corners to facilitate a form of ‘peek-a-boo’ revelation of the pictorial material.’

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Address:Lisbon, Portugal