Pavilion Orangery
Gl Holtegaard, Denmark
Competition, 2015
Honorable mention
Collaboration with
Pia Dyrendahl Staven, Copenhagen
Even Brænne Olstad, Copenhagen
Thurah's garden follows Gl. Holtegaard's classic baroque garden ideal, where man overtakes nature and drains it. Through hierarchical geometric landscapes, the wildness of nature is clogged, and from a specific point of view in the garden, the viewer is the master of nature and the centre of creation. A pavilion for Gl. Holtegaard must find a way to enter into dialogue with this heritage.
We have chosen to draw a pavilion, which interprets the baroque ideals. The Pavilion's plan is strictly geometric and controlled with eight triangular columns that are displaced by a central point. At the centre is the human being. Through mirrors on one of the three sides of the columns, fragments of the baroque garden are sent to the ocean's views, mixing the impression with the pavilion's growths and semi-transparent surfaces. The viewer's eye is a contemporary look, the overview and the clear narrative are replaced by a sample of impressions and it is up to the viewer to give the experience meaning.
The pavilion is without hierarchy or direction. There are eight inputs of one's width, between
eight glass columns of one's size. Inside the columns grows exotic plants. Each glass column is at the same time a greenhouse.
Each pillar is 1.2 meters high and made up of three glass panels of different reflectivity. Towards the viewer in the centre of the pavilion, the glass is clear, giving an overview of the plants growing in the column. Next to the garden is frosted glass, where the colours of the plant diffuse. The third side of the column is double-sided mirror glass. The mirrors reflect the garden into the pavilion and the interior of the pavilion in the garden. This way the garden never appears directly in the pavilion, but reflected in the mirror.