In the summer of 2018, our collaboration was awarded a University Design Fellowship from the Exhibit Columbus organization to design, fabricate, and build a large pavilion in Columbus, Indiana as part of a bi-annual contemporary architecture exhibition. Our proposal for the competition was a pavilion that would double as an ecological education center. Our design rendered our site’s context as an animate field, replete with pre-existing material composites that we wanted to celebrate through a series of displays, information boards, and artificial lighting. In this, the installation would feature samples of local plants, minerals, and rocks, indigenous to Southern Indiana. 

The pavilion design borrowed aesthetic cues from early British High-Tech architecture, ecological artists, sculptural precedents and from vernacular greenhouse construction; its cladding was semi-translucent and was conceived as a “kit-of-parts” to be assembled on site in a matter of a few days with no skilled labor.