Pavilion at Kvadrat Headquarters
In collaboration with Thomas Demand Ebeltoft, Denmark 2017–2020 (under construction)
Client: Kvadrat
This project, for a pavilion set in the coastal dunes surrounding the textile company Kvadrat’s headquarters in Ebeltoft, on the east coast of Denmark, is a design collaboration with the artist Thomas Demand.
The pavilion is about pleasure and hospitality, with its form inspired by the combination of three ‘found’ objects chosen by the artist: a piece of yellow legal paper, a paper plate, and an American soda jerk’s hat. The three objects are assembled as a still life on a gentle hillock within the landscape; they provide a meeting room, a small kitchen, and a larger flexible living room that holds a hanging textile piece by the artist Rosemarie Trockel. The site is delicately landscaped and dotted with artworks by Olafur Eliasson and Roman Signer.
The three volumes are built with light steel structures. The ‘paper plate’ provides an entrance to the pavilion; its cylindrical volume is fully glazed, and its thin round columns hold up the plate, made in a formed sheet of steel. The ‘legal paper’ is fully glazed, with the faded yellow-and-black-lined folded paper sheet made in translucent formed fibreglass. The ‘hat’ is made in fully welded steel plate that rises out of the landscape, its elliptical shape rising directly out of the rolling landscape.


Drawings

Site plan

Ground floor plan

North elevation

South elevation

'Paper' building section

'Plate' building section

'Hat' building section
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Credits
Location
Ebeltoft, Denmark
Date
2017–2020
Client
Kvadrat
Gross internal area
250 m²
Collaborating artist
Thomas Demand
Caruso St John Architects
Adam Caruso, Peter St John
Project architect
Will Pirkis
Structural engineer
Arup
Services engineer
Arup
Project manager, construction manager
Link, Lüchinger Meyer Hermansen
Façade engineering
Arup
Lighting design
Arup
Landscape architect
Vogt Landscape Architects AG
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