Entrance Pavilion Palingbeek / Schenk Hattori

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By revealing the unconscious characteristics of its surroundings, it becomes a machine to read its context. Through an iterative and evolutive wooden structure it is doing the minimum, just enough to turn a space into a place in the visitor’s perception.This place is meant to be a spatial and informative introduction to the nature reserve of the Palingbeek area, close toIeper, and its history of World War I.Being an element of visual guidance, a part of the walkway structure, and also a place in itself with its own logic, this structure is able to receive and generate its own identity. Hence it is more than an extension of the existing pavilion as it defines the space beyond its direct surroundings.Text description provided by the architects.An architectural element can only become a beacon when it addresses and interprets the built and the natural simultaneously. In that way, we wish to generate something that understands and reveals the meaning of its landscape.