Perpetual Spring
A precedent for experimental pavilion design utilizing repeating hemispherical bubble glazing across both vertical walls and pitched roofs to create a high-impact visual envelope.
- What we like about this project
- The dome windows extend continuously up the pitched roof surface like scaled shingles.
Materials
- acrylic
- metal-panel
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- bubble-windows
- hemispherical-domes
- pitched-roof-pavilion
- gridded-plaza
Style tags
- experimental
- speculative
- playful
- contemporary
Visual tags
- pavilion
- experimental-facade
- rooftop-installation
- daylighting
- playful
- Geometry
- Rectangular single-story pitched-roof pavilion sitting on a gridded rooftop plaza, densely punctuated by protruding hemispherical bubble windows across both walls and roof slopes.
- Facade system
- Prefabricated panelized wall system featuring inset circular portholes fitted with protruding clear acrylic domes.
- Structural guess
- Lightweight steel or timber frame supporting modular wall and roof panels.
- Spatial scale
- One-story pavilion scale, dwarfed by surrounding multi-story buildings but immediate to human figures walking in the foreground.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting sharp reflections and highlights on the curved acrylic bubble surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Playful and uncanny, blending retro-futuristic bubble forms with a simple industrial shed geometry.
- Environmental context
- Set on a large gridded concrete paver and turf rooftop terrace surrounded by taller institutional tile-clad buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The pavilion reads as a curious tactile object contrasted against the massive context buildings; the proliferation of bubble portals breaks down standard enclosure scales.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid of circular portals repeating horizontally and vertically across the facade and ascending the roof.
- Style reading
- Experimental speculative pavilion architecture
- Program
- Exhibition pavilion or experimental greenhouse structure
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- acrylic, metal-panel, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- bubble-windows, hemispherical-domes, pitched-roof-pavilion, gridded-plaza
- Style tags
- experimental, speculative, playful, contemporary
- Visual tags
- pavilion, experimental-facade, rooftop-installation, daylighting, playful
- Geometry
- Rectangular single-story pitched-roof pavilion sitting on a gridded rooftop plaza, densely punctuated by protruding hemispherical bubble windows across both walls and roof slopes.
- Facade system
- Prefabricated panelized wall system featuring inset circular portholes fitted with protruding clear acrylic domes.
- Structural guess
- Lightweight steel or timber frame supporting modular wall and roof panels.
- Spatial scale
- One-story pavilion scale, dwarfed by surrounding multi-story buildings but immediate to human figures walking in the foreground.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting sharp reflections and highlights on the curved acrylic bubble surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Playful and uncanny, blending retro-futuristic bubble forms with a simple industrial shed geometry.
- Environmental context
- Set on a large gridded concrete paver and turf rooftop terrace surrounded by taller institutional tile-clad buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The pavilion reads as a curious tactile object contrasted against the massive context buildings; the proliferation of bubble portals breaks down standard enclosure scales.
- Composition rhythm
- Strict grid of circular portals repeating horizontally and vertically across the facade and ascending the roof.
- Style reading
- Experimental speculative pavilion architecture
- Program
- Exhibition pavilion or experimental greenhouse structure
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture