Caruso St John Architects . Thomas Demand . photos: © NIC TENWIGGENHORN
This project, for a pavilion set in the coastal dunes surrounding the textile company Kvadrat’s headquarters in Ebeltoft, on the east coast of Denmark, is a design collaboration with the artist Thomas Demand.
The pavilion is about pleasure and hospitality, with its form inspired by the combination of three ‘found’ objects chosen by the artist: a piece of yellow legal paper, a paper plate, and an American soda jerk’s hat. The three objects are assembled as a still life on a gentle hillock within the landscape; they provide a meeting room, a small kitchen, and a larger flexible living room that holds a hanging textile piece by the artist Rosemarie Trockel. The site is delicately landscaped and dotted with artworks by Olafur Eliasson and Roman Signer.
The three volumes are built with light steel structures. The ‘paper plate’ provides an entrance to the pavilion; its cylindrical volume is fully glazed, and its thin round columns hold up the plate, made in a formed sheet of steel. The ‘legal paper’ is fully glazed, with the faded yellow-and-black-lined folded paper sheet made in translucent formed fibreglass. The ‘hat’ is made in fully welded steel plate that rises out of the landscape, its elliptical shape rising directly out of the rolling landscape.
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Pavilion at Kvadrat Headquarters
In collaboration with Thomas Demand
Ebeltoft, Denmark
2017–2020 (under construction)
Client: Kvadrat
