"Pavilions are architecture's fast, experimental structures that test ideas long before they scale up to cities. This year's highlights push that spirit further, blurring the lines between sculpture, shelter, ritual space, and ecological device. From bamboo vaults rising in flood-prone villages to inflatable dream temples, from wind-driven feather structures on remote islands to LEGO-built playscapes in London, the pavilion becomes a tool for storytelling."
"Across the ten projects, a set of shared themes emerges: material reinvention, circular design, and a renewed focus on community. Bread waste becomes structure, bamboo becomes climate infrastructure, and woven rattan becomes a water-harvesting system. Some pavilions introduce new behaviors, gathering, dreaming, resting, learning, while others revive old rituals like bathing or communal reading. What ties them together is their willingness to ask what a temporary space can do, and how it can shift our relationship to place, resources, and each other."
Pavilions function as quick, experimental architectures that test ideas before they scale to cities, blending sculpture, shelter, ritual space, and ecological device. Projects reclaim materials and invent systems: bread waste becomes load-bearing structure, woven rattan harvests water, and bamboo acts as climate-adaptive infrastructure. Several designs prioritize disassembly, reuse, and passive cooling to reduce energy and material footprint. Programs shift behaviors by creating spaces for gathering, dreaming, bathing, and communal reading. Pavilions also foreground craft and cultural exchange with lightweight wooden frames, aluminum cladding, and traditional boat-building techniques adapted for contemporary sustainability goals.
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