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Friday, 12 August 2011
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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!
Sunday, 3 July 2011
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!
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