Cast out from your home, shelter becomes an uncertain necessity. GEOMETRIC PAVILION is an emergency shelter mainly created from recycled, inner bicycle tubing and soft plastics, alongside basic building techniques. The shelter's structure is created with tubing which has been formed into triangles of various sizes, which, using its elasticity, is lifted by reinforced strings that are attached to the site’s surrounding light poles. Soft plastic, which rests on the bonework of the structure, is then secured to provide shelter to the user.
Resisting Weather
As the structure was designed to accommodate myself, within a fictional context of homelessness due to unknown circumstances, decisions were made to reflect my own personal desires when forming the shelter.
Model on Site
Creating a private space which interacts with the surrounding environment was a strongly desired intention. The site itself is not a highly populated area within the Monash University Caulfield campus, positioned in front of the small grass patch in front of Building E.
Interior
Whilst intended to be intimidating through its sharp primitive form, it is only to discourage others from entering, disconnecting the user from other people, but not their surroundings, hence the multiple openings in the structure.
The form was developed utilising Kangaroo physics simulations in Grasshopper, specifically using bouncing forces.
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
