Kenzo Tange Pavilion at Harvard GSD
The OFFICE KGDVS designed structure is a “1:1 scale model” of the pavilion. Our installation is a model of this model of a pavilion. Formally the project is a series of continuous regressions in scale which raise questions about the status of representation and the differing intellectual associations inherent to such scalar jumps. We intend to link these jumps to subtly intervene in the social space that the pavilion wants to engage.
OFFICE’s pavilion shifts in its reading between a model and a piece of built architecture. Our model of model acts as an attractor point within the field of the pavilion, also performing in a reflexive move as the referent for the actual structure.
“The desire for stable origins [in architecture] always turns up empty.”
Stan Allen’s words are an appropriate encapsulation of the idea that architecture exists within the realm of representations of the built work, not the built work itself. The idea of scaling, much like a Russian doll, is thought of as an endless series of models nested within each other which raises this very question of the locus of architecture. Here, these models serendipitously come into contact with the virtual social space and become usable.
In collaboration with Pablo Castillo, Rolando Girodengo, Dhruv Mehta and Sarah Hopper