The pavilion consists of a steel frame holding ten photo-laminated panels, each hinged and divided diagonally to fold and pivot in multiple directions. The panels display high-resolution photographs taken from a single spot in the New Mexico landscape, including views straight up and straight down. The floor is laminated with a photo of the exact ground where the pavilion sits, enabling the folded structure to visually disappear into its surroundings. Visitors can fold and manipulate each panel to produce countless spatial configurations, from a minimalist cube to an outward-exploding sculpture. The frozen photographic moments contrast poetically with the changing living landscape, and the pavilion is designed to be illuminated at night.
Architecture usually frames the landscape around it, but what if it could actually become part of that landscape while letting you reshape both the space and your perspective? Michael Jantzen's Folding Landscape Pavilion concept explores exactly this idea, creating an interactive structure that blurs the line between building, artwork, and the natural world. The pavilion starts with a deceptively simple steel frame that holds ten photo-laminated panels, each one hinged and divided diagonally so they can fold and pivot in multiple directions.
But here's where it gets interesting: those panels aren't just decorative surfaces. They're high-resolution photographs taken from a single spot in the New Mexico landscape, capturing every possible view, including straight up at the sky and straight down at the ground. Designer: Michael Jantzen The floor itself is laminated with a photo of the exact ground where the pavilion sits. When everything is folded flat, the structure essentially disappears into its surroundings, creating perfect visual continuity between the photographed landscape and the real thing.
What makes this concept genuinely exciting is how visitors can physically interact with it. Each panel can be folded out from the frame and then manipulated along its diagonal hinge, creating an almost infinite number of spatial configurations. One moment you're inside a minimalist cube, the next you're surrounded by a dynamic sculpture that looks like it's exploding outward into the landscape.
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