The pavilion for the Revolution of Dignity Museum is a short-span project to galvanize the transformation of the surrounded landscape. Since 2018 when the two best projects for the Museum Building and of Memorial for the Heavenly Hundred Heroes were selected through competitions nothing happened. While collective memory of recent events is still waiting for the comprehensive spaces, people go to the site every day for remembering and gathering. Moreover, the State Intuition, Museum of Dignity, requires the space for events and activities. The best idea is to do the transformation right on the construction site of the future Museum, 150 meters far from Independence square. The triggering moment for the pavilion was the Revolution’s 5th anniversary on November 21, 2019. We’ve been invited to the project one and a half months prior to this date.

Finding ourselves in this complex time-frame and political context, we realized that it is a great time to challenge the National Institution for the architectural experiment. The site on which the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity will be built has a long and complex history. To some extent, its condition reflects our society today - a ruptured pit with numerous incomplete foundations from previous attempts to create something new. It is hard to count these numerous attempts to develop the site, starting from multifunctional complex to residential.

Now, it seems everybody agrees that only a museum can be in this place, this particular museum. Obviously, before constructing a museum, there is still much to be done. We believe that temporary intervention is a relevant instrument to de-escalate lengthy expectations and to shed a light on the process behind architectural solutions. Making the site publicly accessible before formal construction has begun is as necessary as demonstrating its architectural renderings. Allowing the visitor to acquire a personal feeling of the site through temporary exhibitions and allowing the museum to represent itself in the public space should coin the idea of the future museum in the hearts and minds of Ukrainians before they are able to step into the actual museum building.