The Exploding Star Pavilion
The Exploding Star Pavilion’s design is based on a conceptual merging of science and art, revealing the potentials of the combination to create a new kind of physical structure. In this case, a physical pavilion is envisioned by thinking of the way in which an exploding star might actually look, and how that visualization could be simplified in ordered to become a major part of the design of a real pavilion.
The first part of the design (and the structural framework) is the four columns that support a large black colored grid. This grid symbolically refers to a piece of the universe in which the exploding star resides. The mass of the star has warped the fabric of space around it and as a result, a small part of the black grid of the pavilion has also been warped in order to symbolically refer to this phenomenon. The explosion of the star has been symbolically illustrated three dimensionally by attaching many thin white curved elements that connect to the white sphere at the center, and radiate out randomly depicting particles of the original star that have separated at the first moments of the explosion.
Conceptually, the intent of this pavilion is to explore ways in which big ideas about science can be used to inspire new forms of art and architecture that have never been seen before, and as a result, suggest new ways of thinking about our place in the universe.
Status: Unbuilt
