The Shell Pavilion

Project Summary.

The task for this project was to make a pavilion for the building we researched in the project before which for me was The King George VI. The Shell is completely contrasting The King George VI building with its stark cold tones compared to the warm tones from the red brick on the building. As well as the shape and form contrasting from one another. The link between the two, however, is not within the colour, texture, shape or form but instead just one section of the King George VI Building – that being the window frames. I named it The Shell because of I drew inspiration from a shell’s organic shape and layering structure inside.

I always found the layers that built the King George VI Building was the most prominent element of it. This can be seen most in the windows where steps of bricks are created to push in the windows into the building. It is the shadows and flow of that section of the building that I drew from to create my design.

The Shell would be placed about four meters away from the King George VI with the exit facing it so that it was close enough to see the detailing around the windows but far enough away so that you could stand at the end of the tunnel with the model and pin-up in the foreground and the Building that the pin-up and model are based on in the background.