CLUNY SUMMER PAVILION

Some of our favourite photos from the Summer:

Photographed by Rick Roxburgh:

Photographed by Ross Shields:

PAVILION REVIEW ON BD

Mark Wilding of BD online has written a king review of Cluny Summer Pavilion.

Click here to read BD review

RICK ROXBURGH

Check out photographer Rick Roxburgh's beautiful photographs and kind review of Cluny Summer Pavilion...
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THE FIRST EVENTS

Mayoral opening




Street dance workshops

THANK-YOUS

A huge thank you to everybody that helped us this week and in the lead up to the build. In particular, thank you to...

The people of Cluny for allowing us into their community and being open-minded to new ideas.

Chris and Kevin from the Integrated Youth Support Service at Connexions for organising all of the events for the coming month and for amazing enthusiasm and support for the project.

St. Luke’s Youth Community Challenge (SLYCC), particularly Charlotte Olden and Becky Ramsey, for helping out and making it such a fun week!

The building volunteers – Mike Horswill (the crane), Juliet Sakyi-Ansah, David Rozwadowski, Carma Masson, Amy Brown, Lukas Barry, Stuart McKenzie, Tom Olden and our on-site professional Leo from Cluny Square.

Gary Fenton from Jewson’s amazingly generous contribution in a crisis.

Chris Davies from Buro Happold engineering for structural advice.

Ian Brown and Paul Jenkinson from the Park’s department of Southend Council.

Local organisation St. Luke’s Healthy Living Centre, Cluny and Peartree Resident’s Associations and South Essex Homes.

And finally the project funders – the Big Lottery, RIBA ICE, UnLtd and the University of Sheffield.

THE BUILD: DAY 05

Finished just in time for the Mayoral opening.

THE BUILD: DAY 04

A stressful day but we're still going!

THE BUILD: DAY 03

The Build from day 03.  Over half way and still lots to do!

SUPEREXCITED

Thanks to Bev from SuperExcited for blogging about our project...
SUPEREXCITED

THE BUILD: DAYS 01-02

Some pictures from our first two days:

CLUNY SUMMER PAVILION

This summer on the 12th of August, Cluny Summer Pavilion will form the centre of a suburban community in Southend-on-Sea, signalling the conclusion of our two-year process of engagement by this initiative. Transforming the central green space of Cluny estate, the pavilion will host a month-long series of summer events; conceived, organised and hosted by the local community.

Like a flat-pack structure, the pavilion is designed to be assembled on site by non-skilled volunteers, allowing young people to shape their community, from conception to construction. The pavilion will be stored away at the end of the summer, ready to be re-erected annually as a platform for future communal activities.

It will act as a blank canvas – a public structure allowing the local community to shape its character with a programme of activities entirely of their own making. Each year, as the pavilion is erected anew, it will adapt to the needs of the local community

This year’s events reflect the community desire to provide meaningful activities to occupy young people over the summer weeks – ranging from street dance workshops to bringing Southend beach to the estate, complete with donkey rides. All events have been conceived and organised in collaboration with Connexions and SLYCC, local youth organisations.

Cluny Summer Pavilion:

Model of the flat pack structure:

CLUNY SUMMER PAVILION EVENTS

As you can see a mini festival has been put together for the month of August surrounding the pavilion.  Thanks to Connexions and SLYCC, the whole community will be able to get involved!

CURRENT DESIGN

The design for Cluny Square Pavilion needs to be buildable by us and anyone who wants to help.  Therefore we have looked into creating fun shapes from sheets of plywood that can be threaded along a tube and secured either end.

The pavilion comprises of two 'arms' that are perpendicular to each other.  One arm contains seating and a stage, the other contains seating and a counter top.  The young people form Connexions thought it would be fun to work with the cafe in Cluny Square selling food and drinks in the park.

Current plan of the design:

The stage arm modelled:

A starting point for the design of the undulations:

The seating area opposite the stage:

We want the undulations to be more extreme as you walk through the arms, but this was our first attempt!

WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY

We are excited to announce that we will be working with Connexions and SLYCC on a programme of events surrounding the pavilion in August. The pavilion will be put up by us (and anyone who wants to help!) the week of 8th August with an opening event on the weekend of the 13th August. We cannot wait for August in Cluny Park!

WE ARE BACK

Despite the lack of activity on our blog we have been busy with progressing the project. We have secured funding from the RIBA ICE Bursary, Knowledge Transfer Grant from the University of Sheffield, UnLtd and Awards for All (the Big Lottery) to support the project.

We never posted our findings of the interactive exhibition last May so I have done below. It has been designed as a fold up pamphlet- just click on the image below to open the document to get a closer look:

Open publication - Free publishing

Our evaluation gave us the information to create a brief for the next stage of the project. It clearly showed that the area is in need of creating a stronger central space that can offer activities and events for the community. Therefore with our next installment of funding we will be designing and building a pavilion for the month of August in Cluny Square.

We will be posting our designs and activities over the exciting and busy forthcoming months!