005 — 45.4408° N, 12.3155° E
Installation · Temporary installation
The Floating Pavilion
A weightless steel roof on eight slender columns above still water, built for one summer.
01Concept
The pavilion is only a plane and its reflection. Visitors walk between the two and lose the sense of which is the building.
Brief
A demountable pavilion for an architecture exhibition, to be fully reused after closing.
02Design challenges / Design solutions
Design challenges
A lagoon site with soft ground and a four-month build window.
Design solutions
Bolted steel on helical piles — no concrete, no welding on site.
Design challenges
Zero waste: every part must be reusable or returnable.
Design solutions
After closing, the roof was re-erected as a covered market in a nearby town.
03Image sequence
04Material palette
Weathered steel
Pre-patinated
Recycled stone
Ground, honed
05Project in numbers
- 140 m²
- Area
- 7 months
- Duration
- 8
- Columns
- 19 days
- Build time
- 100 %
- Material reused
06Design team
Fictional studio. All content is illustrative demo material.
Jonas Lindqvist
Technical Director
Sana Okafor
Associate Architect
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