People’s Pavilion

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The People’s Pavilion was built in 2017 for Dutch Design Week (DDW). The pavilion was architecturally designed by Bureau SLA and Overtreders, in collaboration with Arup who designed the structural system. As the pavilion was a temporary structure, it was erected for 9 days, and then disassembled upon the end of the design week. The primary circular design approach of the project was its focus on designing for deconstruction. This required the designers to rethink the assembly and instead of using typical connection and fastening methods like screwing, drilling, sawing and gluing and instead they used steel straps and tension belts. All of the building materials including the concrete piles, pinewood beams, glass roof and partitions, recycled plastic cladding tiles, lighting and heating systems and interior furniture was borrowed and returned unharmed to their owners at the end of DDW.