Michigan architects Synecdoche have won a design competition run by Young Architects Forum of Atlanta, which has resulted in this stacked timber pavilion in Atlanta Georgian. The two and a half ton structure, called Edge Condition Pavilion, is constructed of timber offcuts and is held to the ground with cables. It is a bit of a balancing act, with the hardwood rods being help together solely by gravity. The architects described the project as;
“Utilizing a by-product material as a means of invoking the temporary pavilion with a temporary material wood edges cut from hardwood boards give a standardized object to build upon creating a field in which to inhabit. By operating on the edge of definitive material, neither board nor wood chip, the wood edge becomes the temporal object between two phases. In the same light the pavilion offers the capacity to be an edge condition of construction. The methodical mode of stacking and maneuvering the edges is in itself on the edge of a mode of construction.”
