Bjarke Ingels Group
A precedent for monumental timber architecture blending traditional heavy-timber joinery with contemporary high-tech production in an expansive glass pavilion.
- What we like about this project
- Traditional decorative timber knot motifs on the beam end-grains juxtaposed with a modern multi-axis industrial robotic arm inside.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- steel
Visual identifiers
- heavy-timber-joinery
- post-and-beam
- robotic-arm
- floor-to-ceiling-glazing
- waterfront-pavilion
Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular
- heavy-timber
- high-tech
- monumental
Visual tags
- timber-structure
- industrial-craft
- pavilion
- waterfront
- daylight
- monumental
- Geometry
- Symmetrical monumental pavilion with heavy timber post-and-beam construction, floor-to-ceiling perimeter glazing, and deep projecting ceiling beams creating layered framing toward the landscape.
- Facade system
- Full-height vertical glass curtain wall set between exposed structural timber columns.
- Structural guess
- Exposed heavy timber post-and-beam structural frame with moment-resisting connections.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; double-height or higher timber volume capable of housing industrial robotic fabrication machinery and large visitor groups.
- Lighting
- Warm morning or late afternoon sun streams low from the exterior, backlighting the central mechanical arm and casting long shadows across the timber floor.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, industrious, and serene, juxtaposing rustic natural timber with precision digital machinery against a sweeping natural backdrop.
- Environmental context
- A waterfront or lakeside setting with terraced green hills visible in the background through the glass envelope.
- Spatial experience
- The space transitions from the heavy timber foreground platform out through continuous floor-to-ceiling glass walls into a panoramic, light-filled landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of heavy vertical timber posts and expressed beam ends punctuated by decorative circular end-grain roundels.
- Style reading
- Neo-traditional structural hybridization with contemporary high-tech integration
- Program
- Digital craft or robotics fabrication workshop and exhibition pavilion
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, steel
- Visual identifiers
- heavy-timber-joinery, post-and-beam, robotic-arm, floor-to-ceiling-glazing, waterfront-pavilion
- Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular, heavy-timber, high-tech, monumental
- Visual tags
- timber-structure, industrial-craft, pavilion, waterfront, daylight, monumental
- Geometry
- Symmetrical monumental pavilion with heavy timber post-and-beam construction, floor-to-ceiling perimeter glazing, and deep projecting ceiling beams creating layered framing toward the landscape.
- Facade system
- Full-height vertical glass curtain wall set between exposed structural timber columns.
- Structural guess
- Exposed heavy timber post-and-beam structural frame with moment-resisting connections.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; double-height or higher timber volume capable of housing industrial robotic fabrication machinery and large visitor groups.
- Lighting
- Warm morning or late afternoon sun streams low from the exterior, backlighting the central mechanical arm and casting long shadows across the timber floor.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, industrious, and serene, juxtaposing rustic natural timber with precision digital machinery against a sweeping natural backdrop.
- Environmental context
- A waterfront or lakeside setting with terraced green hills visible in the background through the glass envelope.
- Spatial experience
- The space transitions from the heavy timber foreground platform out through continuous floor-to-ceiling glass walls into a panoramic, light-filled landscape.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic repetition of heavy vertical timber posts and expressed beam ends punctuated by decorative circular end-grain roundels.
- Style reading
- Neo-traditional structural hybridization with contemporary high-tech integration
- Program
- Digital craft or robotics fabrication workshop and exhibition pavilion
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture