https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuywsaTI0a0Video: ZahaHadid Architects
Capsule-shaped Burnham Pavilion canopy
Text descriptions provided by the architects. The image of Daniel Burnham is important to the city of Chicago as we know it, as he was one of the authors of the Plan of Chicago, also known as the Burnham Plan, which reshaped Chicago's downtown area starting from 1909.
To celebrate the centenary of this plan, several events were held this year, such as the 2020 Union Station competition and the Burnham Memorial competition. Additionally, two pavilions by UN Studio and Zaha Hadid have been temporarily installed at Millenium Park (read our previous article about this), hosting multimedia exhibits about the future of Chicago, including design Burnham Pavilion canopy. The booths will be open to the public until October 31, 2009.
Zaha Hadid Architects' pavilion combines new formal concepts with memories of Burnham's bold, historic urban planning. The overlap of spatial structures with hidden traces of the Burnham Plan is overlaid and inscribed within the structure to create a dynamic form.
Capsule-shaped Burnham Pavilion canopy
“The Burnham Centennial Plan is all about celebrating the bold plans and big dreams of Daniel Burnham's visionary Plan for Chicago. It is about regeneration and innovation on an urban scale and welcoming the future with innovative ideas and technologies.
Design Burnham Pavilion canopy Ours continues Chicago's renowned tradition of cutting-edge architecture and engineering, at the scale of a temporary pavilion, while also referencing the organizational systems of Burnham's Plan. Structure Burnham Pavilion canopy arranged diagonally in Burnham's early 20th century Plan of Chicago. We then overlay the fabric using contemporary 21st Century techniques to create a fluid, organic form – while the structure is always connected through the stretch fabric as a reminder of these Burnham's original idea. ”
Capsule-shaped Burnham Pavilion canopy
“Fabric is both a traditional and a high-tech material whose form is directly related to the forces acting on it – creating beautiful geometries that are never arbitrary. I find this very interesting.” —Zaha Hadid
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