In search of order: leisure pavilion in Charlottenlund garden


studio project | June 2019
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen

In search of order is primarily a research project that questions the notion of order in modern architecture, seeks for a plural language of architectural expression that does not limit interpretation but opens to dialogue between mathematical beauty of proportions and complexity of ormanentation in historical sites.

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Finally, the project takes on the form of the pavilion for simple leisure activities in the park surrounding the Charlottenburg Palace on the outskirts of Copenhagen.


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The idea behing the project is to make accessible to the broad audience the experience of staying in a summer Royal Palace. Due to its current status of a historical monument there is no possibility to open the Palace itself to the general public, I propose a garden pavilion that recreates the spatial conditions of palace interiors, following the tradition of garden romantic pavilions. The aim is to recapture the particular experience, originally destined for a very limited audience, and open it to the public. That is to source from a social order of the past and translate it in accordance to the norms and values of a contemporary egalitarian society.

The pavilion becomes the facility for music events that can be regularly hosted in the garden. It creates spatial conditions for the most effortless and simple forms of leisure, such as sunbathing, sky gazing, reading or listening to music. Due to limitations of the function, the space enhances users to fully devote to the spatial experience offered by the romantic park and the pavillion itself.

14th hectare garden can be clearly divided into two parts : the part that was set a park and a part that resembles a forest. The border between the different natural atmospheres is clear, it does not fade away gradually. The pavilion has been located on the border of two. This creates special qualities that enable for the pavilion to have two different faces and create a variety of spatial arrangements. Two opposite sites of the pavlion respond differently to the existing conditions of the opposite sides of the natural border, creating variations of spaces that address different activities.

The project aims to evoke a feeling of being inside and outside at the same time. Recreating the spatial conditions of the palaces interior, by analysis and reinterpretation of the principle that they have been based on.