MARC FORNES/THEVERYMANY fabricates vaulted willow pavilion in edmonton — designboom.com

MARC FORNES/THEVERYMANY fabricates vaulted willow pavilion in edmonton all images courtesy of marc fornes /theverymany erected within edmonton, canada’s borden park is the ‘vaulted willow’ — an architectural folly that explores lightweight, ultra-thin, self-supported shells by marc fornes/theverymany. conceived through the development of custom computational protocols of structural form-finding and descriptive geometry, the pavilion is the result of a reciprocal relationship that encompasses experiments in non-linear architectural typology (multiple entries, distributed feet with branching and spiral legs…), structural differentiation (bifurcation of structural download forces, tighter radii of leg profiles for rigidity…) and programmatic possibilities for a winding playground (hide and seek…).

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