Denisa Badoi

Year of studies: 3rd
Program: Coffee Pavillion
Collaborators: Azap Bianca
Brief: The project focused on the use of wood as a construction material in architecture. Thus, the material of choice had to be wood. The given site was on one side of a historical metal bridge. Previously, the bridge had been flanked by two small hut for the guards that collected the taxes for passing the bridge. One of them had been wholy preserved  but the other one had been lost, leaving only the stone foundation. The pavillion was to be built on this foundation and was to act as reativating factor for the bridge.
Summary: Considering the given material, wood, the concept of the project had to work with the material from the very start. That is why we decided thet our concept was going to start from the smallest scale, the scale of the detail, and build the rest of the building in the spirit of that detail. In this case, the inspiration was a wood joint. The traditional node between a column and the beams is reimagined into one that appears to be deconstructing. The whole pavillion plays with this image, elements appearing to be floating independent of the others and away. The final result is a construction that does not try to replace the twin of the hut on the other side of the river, but complement it in a new way, being all that the solid brick hut is not. This way, a dialogue is made between present and past.