THE NODES

CONCEPTUAL PAVILION OF EXPRESSIVENESS

Place: Park Library of Trees, Milan

This studio focus on the conceptual thinking to design a building with coherent storyline, encouraging we studio to explore with imaginative approaches. This project introduces “nodes” on an assigned Milan Site, the park library of trees landscape, to create a melodic and rhythmic piece, as a crystallized expression of liveliness. Nodes are the main compositional elements of Milan urban context. In urban scale, the pavilion itself acts as a new node to highlight the axis which connects the Piazza Gae Aulenti to the Library of Trees. For the pavilion, it is composed of nodes situating on new axes formed from the existing trees. Echoing with the dynamicity expressed by local people around the site, instead of being static objects, the nodes unfold themselves to attain an ambiguous, expressive form with gravitational pull from centres. The pavilion, as an expressive and performative subject, provokes sensations and introduces memorable experience to the visitors walking along its body.