As part of TwispWorks mission to support economic vitality through arts and culture, the TwispWorks Pavilion was designed as a community structure available for local arts organizations to deliver free programming to the community. This can include music, dance, outdoor movies and theatrical performances as well as art exhibitions and special events. The 1,000 square foot pavilion includes three sides of movable acoustic walls comprised of Glue Laminated Timber panels. These panels were CNC routed with a dynamic surface pattern providing both sound refraction and aesthetic appeal. The panels rotate 360° allowing the user to determine sound direction, and stage appearance. As such, the pavilion is always dynamically changing, never static. As the panels turn, they react differently to the light. Light skims the pattern of the wood as the sun moves across the sky throughout the day providing a different experience of the panels themselves each time you view them. As the panels are spinning free, the pavilion provides yet a different experience. Almost a performance in itself. Wood was the perfect material for this application as a structure in support of performance. The warmth, texture, and sound absorptive qualities of wood and the GLT panels keep the pavilion connected visually with existing studios on the TwispWorks grounds, while standing out as signature structure on the TwispWorks campus.

The services for the structure were designed to be nearly invisible. Audio, video, and power are routed along the tops of beams to allow speakers, the projector, and screen to hang from the upper beams during events. Lighting is integrated into the top flange of the steel beams. 

Serious Fun Studio designed the pavilion to be fabricated offsite and installed quickly like a kit-of-parts. The steel columns and beams were erected and bolted together by one person with a remote crane. All of the electrical and audio-video routes were pre-drilled in the steel beams before erection. The electrician was able to attach junction boxes and light fixtures onto pre-threaded locations. All of the attachments for the purlins were pre-drilled, so the framer was able to roll out the roof structure and attach it quickly in the predetermined locations. The wall panels were manufactured in a mass timber factory, then fastened into their steel surrounds and pivot assemblies by the steel fabricator, then bolted into place on the structure.