A jewel of a winning design
23 March 2013The winner of this year’s TRADA and Timbmet-sponsored contest for students to design a timber pavilion looks complex, but it’s made from just a single piece of beech.
The annual competition for architecture students at Oxford Brookes University is aimed at developing their skills and interest in using timber - and the winning project is named the Dan Kemp Memorial Pavilion after Timbmet's founder.
This year's prize was won by student Edward Gillibrand, and presented by TRADA's university manager Elizabeth Turner at Ecobuild, where the winning design was on show.
The brief was for the pavilion to take the form of a "geologist's jewellery box' and Mr Gillibrand's design, which uses the beech cut into lozenges, features segments that rotate on wires and can be opened and closed by pulling on cords weaving through the structure. When fully shut, it looks like a single timber block. It was translated from model to full-size structure by Nielsen Shipbuilders of Gloucester.
The Award judges said that Mr Gillibrand's design "combined charm and buildability".
