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Located in the Queen Victoria Gardens in the center of Melbourne’s Southbank Arts Precinct, the pavilion intends to draw the community in and act as a cultural laboratory.
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OMA has designed a temporary structure that, along with providing space for performances, entertainment and events, can also perform itself.
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The pavilion’s ground surface is shaped by two tribunes, one fixed, the other movable, which together determine the setup of the performance space.
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The larger static tribune is excavated from the surrounding landscape and embedded in 12 different species of Australian flora, giving a sense of the local setting.
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The smaller tribune can rotate, allowing it to shift functions from seating to stage and blur the distinction between actor and audience.
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The main infrastructure of the pavilion, such as lighting and curtains, is placed in the overarching canopy, a 2-meterhigh mechanical grid structure made of aluminum cladded steel.
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The mechanics in the canopy can be activated per the type of event taking place; an open-air venue for performances, entertainment and sports.
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Existing of both static and dynamic elements, the pavilion allows for many configurations and can generate unexpected programming, echoing the ideals of the typology of the amphitheater.
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With the city as a backdrop, the MPavilion provokes discussion on Melbourne, its development, and its surroundings. Source by OMA.
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- Location: Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
- Architect: OMA
- Partner-in-Charge: David Gianotten, Rem Koolhaas
- Project Team: Laurence Bolhaar, Miguel Taborda, Paul Jones, Fedor Medek, Eve Hocheng
- Structural Engineer:Arup
- Builders: Kane Construction
- Building Surveyors: Gardener Group
- Landscape Architects: Tract
- Clients: Naomi Milgrom Foundation
- Year: 2017
- Photographs: John Gollings, Timothy Burgess, Courtesy of OMA
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