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ROOTS competition: SCHUNCK* pavilion

The first reference is, off course, the Schunck Glass-Palace, originaly built as a sequence of horizontal marketplaces, Peutz’ architectural point of view of the specific use of the environment and the behaviour of merchant and buyer.

The basis of the pavilion is a stage, about 30 cm above groundlevel, where yet unknown things can happen. It has to be covered in an easy way to protect against weather and, if needed, surrounded by a sort of curtain to create an enclosed and conditioned room.

Our (a little bit “rock’n roll”) version of this rather simple view is a double truck-trailer. A wooden floor (build of standard anti-slip “betonplex” plywood 244x122cm), wall and roof construction build with a standard trailer curtain-sider system (with optional semi translucent sliding roof...) and an entrance with two standard garagedoors (with vertical wooden cladding) used inside out (so when open door becomes porch roof). The canvas trailer wall is covered with large printing in originaly fontstyle: SCHUNCK*. The curtain sider wall can be (almost fully) opened so the (double) trailer can become a local version of Mies’ Farnsworth House. More or less exposure of the inside cq. less or more room with a view...
The middle construction-line is hidden by semi-translucent “Schunck columns” in the same material as the semi-translucent roofing.They also function as interior-lighting and cabinet.
Wall-presentation is possible with a small parallel rail around, steel cables with turn-buckles and lashing rings in the floor (like normal attachment inside a trailer).

The path towards the pavilion can be signed with canvas umbrellas hanging on street-lights (“Schunck” columns upside down) above a so called wooden“stehtisch” which can also be used as information-point.

The estimated cost:
ca. 100m2, between 300 á 400 euro/m2, so much less than 50.000 euro (because almost only prefab and standard materials/constructions are used).

All trailer parts can be seen (and bought!): http://www.boyriven-ecatalogue.com