Located within the new garden of an urban hospital, the pavilion provides shade and seating for visitors. Its most important function, however, is creating a place that momentarily transports the visitor’s mind away from illness. The intricate patterns formed by the tubes and the shadows cast on the ground are meant to captivate the visitor’s imagination. This is a place suitable for sitting alone or sharing a moment with another person.
The pavilion is fabricated from 2793 linear feet of 2-inch diameter mild steel tube that were precisely bent with a computer numerically controlled rolling system. Each of the 352 individual tubes are unique and together they form a structural shell that has no hierarchy in a traditional sense. There are no extraneous elements. It has an integrated structure and surface.
This project was selected as a 2017 FABRICATE finalist.
Client: Cedars-Sinai
Pavilion Artists and Designers: Ball-Nogues Studio
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold Los Angeles
Landscape Architect: AHBE
General Contractor: Hensel Phelps
