05.04.2024
The Children's Pavilion at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2023
Studio Matter designed a pavilion for children, which is one of the four projects to receive the Serendipity Arts Festival Public Art Grant 2023 in Panaji, Goa. The office describes the project as follows:
The Serendipity Arts Festival invites artists and creative practitioners to propose experimental interventions in the urban realm of the city of Panaji. This project was executed through this competition as a 'non-library' and was one of the four projects to receive the Serendipity Arts Festival Public Art Grant 2023. Every year, BookWorm foundation, a non-profit library for children, establishes a reading room in the dense canopy of the forest abutting the Mandovi river. Our proposal engages with this wonderful idea of reading a book in the forest creating a node - a light, minimal enclosure that can playfully house the library and other programming including small skits, readings and recitations, as well as evening performances.
Designed as an intersection of a square and a circle, the pavilion engages with the notion of indiscipline, asymmetry and play with a meandering wall and a frame that lends itself to a multitude of programmatic engagements: theatre, workshops, story-telling sessions etc. A porous public container, the architecture of the space breaks away from the monotony of a white-box / black-box spatial constructs that enable display and performance. The structure attempts to dissolve the rigid boundaries between inside and outside; between architecture and landscape.
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