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Philbrook Museum of art Garden Pavilion alternate for construction |
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Situated
in the gardens of the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa Oklahoma, two
pavilions sit as smudges in the landscape. An evaporative horizontal
18’x9’x9’ mirror box and a vertical 9’x9’x18’
branch box stand in dialogue with one another and the surrounding
landscape. Evaporating into the natural surroundings, the lattice
boxes become viewing chambers for engaging, focusing, and re-experiencing
the surrounding landscape. Made of layered 2"x2" pine
structure, the frame folds and deforms to form both furniture
and oculus. Each reflects and dissolves their exterior to enigmatically
meld with the surrounding landscape, while their interiors become
anthropomorphically scaled furniture landscapes each engaging
a framed view. The horizontal box is cloaked in slightly canting
standard closet mirrors: pre-cut and inexpensive. The undulating
surface re-presents the surrounding landscape in a pixilated fractal
blur. Held apart from one another small slits of light and view
penetrate between the panels. Three sheets of stained plywood
form an accessible floor surface for primary travel. The lattice
frame folds to form a curved horizontal lounger, three stools
of varied widths and heights sharing a single portal, and a sunken
cockpit. The branch box employs recycled branches trimmed from
the grounds of the Philbrook Gardens. These natural entities group
to form a dense thicket. The branch box houses a single chair
and a sunken corten impluvium. An exaggerated conpluvium of dangling
2"x2"s creates a framed roof oculus composing the sky.
The impluvium is activated by weather serving as a rain chamber,
a cloud catcher, a reflecting pool, and a brise-soleil. Two stained
plywood sheets form an accessible floor and direct circulation.
The two figures reflect and compliment the landscape blurring
the surroundings in their surface and framing it through their
viewing mechanisms. They stand as silent composed figures: chambers
for viewing and figures for engaging. |
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