AD1 // RISING Pavilion

FALL 2022 // CRITIC ADAM PETELA // First-year pavilion design

Sculpture 23 by Rudolf Belling is a brass sculpture resembling the form of a human head. It is mechanical and composed of implied relationships between pieces. The sculpture’s components are not specific, but in their specific arrangement they are able to resemble the human form.

In RISING Pavilion, interlocked forms are articulated as they had been used in Belling’s sculpture. The pavilion itself is static, with a multitude of pieces locked together into a final form for occupation. The landscape is in motion, with dynamic forms that are in the process of locking together. The contrast illustrates the spatial implications between the two types. In the pavilion, pieces must conform to each other in order to lock together, affecting the form in a way that requires occupants to do the same conforming. The landscape in motion leaves in-between spaces that are much freer in comparison, where one can choose their way of occupation.