UNSTUDIO BURNHAM PAVILION, CHICAGO

摘要

Ben van Berkel of UNStudio didn't have to look far for inspiration when the city of Chicago commissioned his firm to design one of two pavilions (Zaha Hadid Architects has designed the other one) in honor of the 100-year anniversary of Daniel Bumham's famous Chicago plan: It was all right there before him in brown ink on sepia-toned paper. Bumham's map opened up the teeming city of 1909 by slashing its orthogonal grid with avenues that ran diagonally out from the center of town. Berkel's pavilion has a square floor and ceiling, which is scooped in parts to form a supporting structure. These drooping elements open up vistas of the city and allow for a roofed structure without walls that invites the public to step aboard.rnContinuing theee civic-minded gestures, lighting designer Tracy Dear of DEAR Productions and artist Daniel Sauter were asked to devise an interactive lighting scheme that would engage visitors. "The question was how to get the light in without creating a lot of light pollution in the surrounding foliage," explains Dear, referring to the nearby trees of the installation's Millennium Park location. "The solution is what I call a light sandwich,' which goes between the roof and the floor of the pavilion."