Assembly Pavilion

Critic: Brennan Buck

Spring 2013

 

Program: The pavilion’s objective is to create communication across various New Haven neighborhoods through space & sound.  The pavilion had to easily pop-up & be taken down so it could travel to several neighborhoods around New Haven.  It is sized to stack in a truck & could be put together in under one hour. The pods break down into wedges to be easily stacked for transit & cost efficient storage.

 

Description: Each pod houses a different type of sound program.  One pod records stories from locals & their neighborhoods, gathered as the pavilion traveled around.  Other pods play back these local sounds in different locations.  Still other pods have musical device plug-in ports for real-time user curation.  The objective is to give local control to these temporary spaces to share & celebrate cultures of New Haven.  The pavilion is then a collection of these pods, designed to be a form of interest which can draw festival-goers to it in a crowded environment.  The interiors of the pods are painted several shades of red/pink & their ceilings are carved with baroque-like ornamental forms which convey the character of the pod’s program.  

 

Fabrication: The pods were constructed out of low density foam & cut with a precision hot-wire foam cutter.  Finished with fiberglass, resin, & paint.   The interior domes were made with low density foam milled by a seven axis Kuka robot 

 

Team: Hiba Bhatty, Dionysus Cho, Suhni Chung, Stephen Dinnen, Neil Flanagan, Chenxi Gong, Noah Morganstern, Boris Morin-Defoy, Craig Rosman, Jay Tsai & Dinah Zhang with Teaching Assistant Teoman Ayas