丨中国北京

Pavilion of Shapes

Beijing

2019

The Pavilion of Shapes is born out of pure, platonic, Hardcorist desire. The Pavilion of Shapes is a formalist oasis in a desert of rhetorical deception. Through simple geometric forms, the Pavilion of Shapes consolidates in a straightforward footprint form as intention. The Pavilion of Shapes emancipates architecture from smokescreens of ambiguity and conceptual perversion.

Free of program the Pavilion of Shapes approximates the utopian desire of architecture without qualities. The Pavilion of Shapes stares into the darkness of the new beginning of the Black Square and extracts a sublime manifestation of nothingness. The Pavilion of Shapes suspends architectural criteria to give way to pure, unrestricted architectural form.

The Pavilion of Shapes is equal times Jungesque, and Suprematist, and Pharaonic, and Archetypical. The Pavilion of Shapes is a Triangle, a Circle and a Square. A Sphere, a Cube and a Pyramid. Born out of formalist capriciousness, the Pavilion of Shapes doesn’t respond to any demand; its imperative is cognitive, symbolic, ontological. Once stripped out of Ideology, pure architectural form is just pure architectural form. The Pavilion of Shapes is a post-ideological pavilion. The Pavilion of Shapes is pure form. Pure form is in the Pavilion of Shapes.

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Project Name: Pavilion of Shapes

Status: Commission

Architect: WAI Architecture Think Tank (Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski)

2019

Location: Beijing, China

Program: Outdoor Exhibition, performance, workshop, and playground space