re-com-posed

World Expo Pavilion

This pavilion seeks to spread awareness around global food waste. In spatial translation of this concept, the form explores the process of decomposition, incarnated architecturally in a system of structural ‘bones,’ wrapped in degrading, paneled ‘tissue,’ which degrades and sheds itself over the course of the Fair’s tenure.

602 Design Studio IV - University of Pennsylvania Spring 2021

In collaboration with: John Nedeau, Weiting Zhang

Instructor: Ben Krone

Site Location: Osaka, Japan

The concept of DECOMPOSITION is how the given form experiences more than one ‘life’ related to how it’s physically comprised. In this vein, our architectural experiments plays with the relationship between structure - the ‘bones’ so to speak - and facade - the ‘skin’ or ‘tissue’.

This pavilion compiles multiple layers of wall/facades. On the exterior, it is a biodegradable multi-ply fabric that is applied in panels, which provides a different shading for the plants growing on the inside. Ramps are supported with exposed corten steel that would later provide another level of rusting and decomposition.