Project: Mobile pavilion for the Yorkshire Renaissance ground-breaking programme to transform England's regional museums.
Value: £600,000
Client: Yorkshire Renaissance
Status: Competition Entry

The Renaissance Pavilion programme, is intended to promote the regeneration and renaissance of Yorkshire. It is about towns. It is about uncovering past identities and bringing people together - creating a community.

The core aspiration of this project is to enable a communal pride through identity and respect, promoting social and cultural integration. Significantly, it will be a symbol of the best of renaissance and communities where ever it is sited. To this end, the proposals seek to create a unique structure, which allows for short and long term adaptation through simple means, and one which can be easily dismantled and transported.

The emergent concept takes reference from the crinoline cage, dressed in fine fabrics and accessories, finely attired for the spectacle of a premiere party or a humble market fare. In this way, the project seeks to re-interpret the humble marquee, a bastion of temporary buildings, with a 21st Century twist, with layered and ruffled highly durable fabrics and thick acoustic layers.

The adopted approach enables unlimited flexibility in terms of approach, orientation, internal use, subdivision, and external appearance. The scheme is also easily adaptable to a variety of floor conditions from town square, the beach and the Yorkshire Dales.