Monash University Department of Architecture, in collaboration with architecture and engineering practices, Rintala Eggertsson, Grimshaw, and Felicetti, shared with us their Sealight Pavilion project which can be found at the Melbourne Docklands in Australia. The aim of the project is to amplify the natural phenomena of sea and sky, while offering a place to meet, to escape the elements, or simply to witness the passage of time, which it has been doing for about a year now. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Constructed of reclaimed timber over a fourteen week period in late 2011, it has become a drawing card in the neighborhood, offering both an intimate scale and an experience of natural amenities that had hitherto been unavailable in that part of Melbourne. The pavilion was intended to amplify the experience of natural phenomena of sea, sky and light, and be one of the few places in which to experience these natural amenities. This ultimately took form as a pair of artifacts: a tower, which dissolves as it climbs to frame the sky, and a a cantilever, which dematerializes as it reaches out to frame the sea.
