Brugge Diptych Pavilion / PARA

Brugge Diptych Pavilion / PARA

Textual content description supplied by the architects. Jon Lott / Para Venture, completes the Brugge Diptych –a momentary pavilion for the 2021 Brugge Triennale, TraumA, Brugge, Belgium. The Diptych served as an occasion house for the Triennale’s programming, addressing points in city trauma, and was one in every of a number of worldwide commissions open inside the metropolis via late Fall.

Docked inside Brugge’s peripheral and residential waterways, and roughly the identical measurement as its neighbors, the wood-framed pavilion stood on 15 (sistered) pontoons, avoiding any direct contact with the protected UNESCO Heritage metropolis. The customer rested mid-block, via summer time and fall, abutting an deserted 15thc. canal home, thereby dividing the block in two. 

Its temporary proximity with the canal home is a research in formal estrangements. Nonetheless, via orientation, materials, scale, and posture, the pavilion acknowledged one thing of itself in its new neighbor. It appears each have their trauma to work via. In any case, structure is felt earlier than it’s understood. 

The venture is the third in a serial research of city “strangers,” together with Lott’s Storefront for Storefront (2016) and the Roche/Dinkeloo Double, on the High-quality Arts Facilities, Amherst (2018). Every embraces the acquainted building strategy of “widespread framing” in partnership with their respective institutional city considerations.