Excerpt: The Straw Pavilion, an architecture project by Mia Design Studio, is an organic structure that blends into its environment, resembling a straw sitting in the garden. The straw, a traditional Vietnamese memory, seamlessly blends into the natural context, allowing it to appear and disappear over time without direct interaction with the garden. The structure does not damage the existing garden and integrates smoothly into the landscape.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The pavilion is designed to be a venue for architectural events. When the architects first came to the site, they immediately felt the presence of nature here, of various plants and greenery, and the need to assert it throughout their design.
They decided to create a structure that can blend itself into its surrounding environment. The special features are all about the mixing, the lightness, the hiding, the penetration. The result is an organic structure just like a straw sitting in the garden.
The straw is an image of memory, one that belongs to the Vietnamese countryside. Once the architect attaches to consciousness and arouses memories, it touches the heart of the people who see it.
The straw is an entity that is able to completely blend itself into the natural context. Not parading around shapes as well as materials, the architects hope it is able to appear and disappear with time slightly with no direct interaction to the garden itself. In the most perspicuous way, this is a structure which does not damage the one existing, it blends in smoothly.
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