#interactive-architecture

#interactive-architecture

Michael Jantzen's Transmutation Observatory completely flips this script by creating a structure that visitors actively shape through their presence. This isn't just a pavilion you walk through or art you observe quietly. It's a living space that responds to human interaction and transforms based on visitor input. The observatory consists of three interlocking cylindrical forms of different sizes, supported by four horizontal planes resting on eight vertical columns.

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.