Built out of waste materials, our 95sqm canopy promotes cycling and allows 500,000 visitors to chill out under NY's biggest bouquet.

Design Team

photographs by Sergio Reyes

Our pavilion states the 'city of dreams', the 'city of tomorrow' will have learnt further lessons from nature. We have carefully studied natural structures that can grow and adapt to their context and time circumstances. The morphology of the hydrangea plant has been particularly useful. Architecture has to learn to adapt to uncertain budgets, social changes and ecological dynamics. The philosophy of an organic growth becomes crucial: keeping ideas flexible so they can be adapted to real problems and needs. This logic also provides a biophilic aspect to our proposal. Learning from nature promotes human well-being naturally, beautifully and intuitively.

We have only considered materials with an environmentally friendly production. Broken umbrellas, old stools or crashed bicycle wheels are all used in the design. There are already several institutions in NY recycling bicycles and furniture that can provide useful materials.

We think reusing isolated elements is much more viable than reusing the pavilion as a whole and that's also why our design is formed by self supported smaller units. Branches composed of several umbrellas and tripods, as well as stools, can be easily reused as sun, wind and rain protectors in windows, terraces or outdoor spaces all around the city. While the bigger elements can be beautiful indoor chandeliers. Both the pavilion and its separate elements can be useful for community centers or NGOs.

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