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HANGING PAVILION
VARIATION WITHIN SEQUENCE
Prof.s Jim Williamson, Lorena Del Rio T.A. Andrew Fu | Fall 2015
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Based on the linear, rhythmic repetition of the harvest mouse’s perforation of grass, five modules with two “jaws” each slide along a steel track. The jaws, connected to the bottom of the modules by elastic bands, snap down when the levers behind are pushed down.
This instrumental function informs the form of first an imaginary site and then a cliffside pavilion, whose rhythmic descent is dictated by sets of modular elements that begin to vary in number and frequency in relation to one another: the excavations in the cliff, the columns, the hanging canopies, the railings, and even the promenade floor.
(Above) Plan of the instrument in motion
(Above) A “marriage” between the instrument and a conceptual ”landscape,” imagined to be created by the movement of the instrument’s jaws.
Side elevation of the cliffside pavilion, inspired by the movement of the instrument.
Front view of the pavilion.
(Above Left) Frontal elevation (Above Right) Descending promenade, held up by “cables”
(Right) A Hierarchy of elements: Cliff excavations, columns, canopies, railings, and floor elements.
