Rammed Earth Pavilion
Individually Led Project
International Design Competition
Mar 2023
We engineer our structures to stand forever, polished like treasure, often overlooking the fact that even our grandest monuments will eventually become nothing but pebbels and sand. Instead of being saddened by the fall of our creations, we should ask; what if its scars could be beautiful? what if death could give its life more meaning?
The fading pavilion dissolves through coastal weathering. Located at the edge of the shoreline, the rammed earth pavillion is sculputed by the waves that flow onto the beach. Instead of repelling nature as the destructive enemy, nature is given the role as the second artist.
Construction Layers of Rammed Earth Compound (Front View)
Erosion process through time (Side & top view)
Presentational pre-design illustration
Early stages and parti development sketching
Erosion observations, where the idea was seeded
San Josef Bay (Sea Stacks), Canada.
San Josef Bay (Sea Stacks), Canada.