Barbara Hepworth and the Pendour

For Project 1, the pavillion design was to make a space best for Barbara Hepworth’s work. Instead, I believe that it was not only about her work, but also the space should reciprocate who she was as a person.The two main aspects I took out of her life to show in my pavillion was the dark period of her life and her inspiration.

She was inspired by the myth in the town she lived, in Cornwall London. The singer of the town fell in love with a mermaid in the sea. He would sing to her every day until eventually he was so infatuated by the mermaid he jumped off the cliff to follow the mermaid out to see.

The dark period of Hepworth’s life was when she lost her eldest son with her first husband in the Airforce. She made her own version of the famoud “Mother and Child” painting of him into a sculpture as a symbol of love.

The final site plan was to challenge the way you perceive space and was mainly focused on Hepworth’s idea of circulation.

Final Site Plan

Final Site Section

Final section of a single space

Goal was to create a circulating space to best display her art work and change elevations based on chronological events in her life and following the myth that inspired her.

Protagonist & Antagonist

Iman Fayyad

Fall 2022

The motive was to create a cube with no sides having a continuous path but connecting to the next face of the surface. There was no possible way to create entire continuity, seen in ‘Model View 2’, there was a break in the sequence on the left face.

The story behind the cube is to show a continous pathway that creates two opposing forces.

‘Model View 1’ as the first force, shows an unwelcoming side and closing its pathway, while

‘Model View 2’ shows the opened pathway.

Antagonist