Image Credit : Earl Carter
Project Overview
MPavilion is a 12m x12m temporary pavilion in the Queen Victoria gardens. It is the first in a series of annual architectural commissions by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. The pavilion hosts a programme of cultural events and activities and is open free to the general public. After four months the pavilion is dismantled and relocated to its permanent home after being gifted to the City of Melbourne.
Project Commissioner
Project Creator
Team
Architect - Sean Godsell Architects
Project Team - Sean Godsell, Hayley Franklin, Dayne Trower
Consultants
Structural Engineer - WSP Structures
Building Surveyor - Wilsmore Nelson Group
Building Contractor - Kane Constructions
Project Brief
To design a pavilion that was adaptable enough to cater for a diversity of public events, that could be secured at night, that could be dismantled and reassembled, that was exemplary architecture.
Project Innovation/Need
The need to secure the building at night informed the decision to incorporate an operable facade that can be controlled remotely. This also resulted in the animation of the facade - different configurations are available for different needs. By extending this idea to the roof plane light and shade are also able to be modulated.
Design Challenge
There were many challenges: making a building that is temporary in its initial iteration only to become permanent later, on a different site with different demands was challenging. The MPavilion is fully self sustaining, isolated from any support buildings or institutions which means that it has to have everything that a permanent building requires to succeed.
Sustainability
The entire building is recyclable - it is designed and detailed to be relocated. The floor is reclaimed from an old farm building. We maintained the excavated soil on site to construct two new grassy mounds to the north of the pavilion. The mounds enhance place making and provide a place to play, lounge and gather adjacent to the MPavilion.
Installation, Display, Exhibit & Set Design
This award celebrates innovative and creative design for a temporary building, interior, exhibition, fixture or interactive element. Consideration given to materials, finishes, signage and experience.
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