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The Knobby Club Rush (Ficinia Nodosa) Is a native grass that is commin to coastal or wetland areas and best thrives in the sand. Now, this plant is often used as park or wetland irrigation and to clean drain water. The plant consists of an upright stem that can reach up to 15 to 20cm in growth, with small round flower spikes that grow throughout most of the year. The Indigenous use from the plant ranges from using the grass for basket weaving to an assortment of edible uses. The Knobby Club Rush is consumed as bush tucker though using the grass as fish smoking rushes as well as containing edible seeds.

Sou Fujimoto’s Serpentine Pavilion, London, 2013 Cannopy Research

Sou Fujimoto said the chosen materials he used wanted to have a mix between nature and architecture. The grid represents the architectural order, however with the repition and the amount of grids he says it creates a more organic soft feel with transparent materials throughout the stucture in order for people to be able to feel and see currents climates, and to be more immersed in nature.

Sean Godsell’s MPavilion

“This fully automated ‘outer skin’ means that the pavilion will ‘open’ each morning and ‘close’ at the end of the day in a number of different configurations. Its exterior is perforated aluminium that reflects light and animates the building. Conceived as architecture that ‘blooms like a flower’ each day and opens to its audience, it also has a mysterious box-like quality at night.”- Rory Stott (Arch Daily)

Taking influence from the formation and growth of the knobby club rush as well as the serpentine pavilion and Sean Godsell’s MPavilion Betty and I designed a pavilion that spreads out and connects to nature with expanding triangular pointed pannels. It hosts a mixture of indoor and outdoor areas that allows the audience to be immersed in the land. We incorporated the idea of Suo Fujimoto’s design of allowing the architecture to become functional seating as well as Sean Godsells operable qualities. Hybrid Forms