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M Pavilion

Dazhou And Associates

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A delicate scaffolding - Fangfang Tian
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A light box - Fangfang Tian
A delicate scaffolding - Fangfang Tian

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JURY VOTES
Bar
6.71
6.63
7.04
6.32
6.68
Vladislav Spitsyn
Vladislav Spitsyn Managing Partner at Front Architecture
The layout is perfect and clean. Si...
5.1
8.52
7.95
10
7.89
Lynn Ya'nan
Lynn Ya'nan Partner & Brand Director at HYLLA Cultural Tourism Development
6.65
7.51
6.05
7.5
6.93
Claudia Fischer-Appelt
Claudia Fischer-Appelt Founder and Creative Director at Karl Anders
This place convinces extremely by u...
6.5
7.11
7.4
7.44
7.11
Jan Geysen
Jan Geysen Founder and Head Designer at PUUR interieurarchitecten
7.17
7.1
8.1
7.81
7.55
Li Wenqiang
Li Wenqiang Founder & Design Director at PIG Design
The use of building materials and t...
6.81
7.95
8.67
8.52
7.99
Alexandra Georgescu
Alexandra Georgescu Founding Partner at KOGAA
Working with real materials which a...
7.16
8.21
7.3
10
8.17
Yorgo Lykouria
Yorgo Lykouria Creative Principal at Rainlight
The materiality beautifully capture...
7.52
7.17
8.09
8.45
7.81
Rian Knop
Rian Knop Founder at Studio Rianknop
Inspiring to see that the restauran...
5.95
6.02
5.77
6.02
5.94
Anna Sundukova
Anna Sundukova Head of Experience Strategy and Founding Partner at Denizen
5
6.75
5.03
6.03
5.7
Misak Terzibasiyan
Misak Terzibasiyan Founder and Principal Architect at UArchitects
modest and beautiful interior archi...
6.69
7.15
7.43
7.72
7.25
Sabine Krieg
Sabine Krieg Dean of the design faculty at University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
6.38
7.17
7.24
7.74
7.13
Mieko Watanabe
Mieko Watanabe Director at wAtelier
Shosugi method should become more w...
5.35
5.66
5.41
6.02
5.61
Nills Gesman
Nills Gesman Architect & Design Sales Manager at Cosentino
Fantastic intimate feeling through...
5.95
6.52
5.95
8.02
6.61

M Pavilion is a coffee shop located in the lobby of an office building in Shanghai. In order not to disturb the daily operations of the building, we applied two basic strategies in the design: rapid construction and a light touch to the site. Then a delicate and decent scaffolding pavilion came into being. 

We came up with an adaptive system with only one prototype of component and very few variations that restrict the construction process within 10 days. This system covers all aspects including structure, envelope, bar worktops, lighting fixture, and foundation floor. 

The whole space is presented in a light form, where the heavy volume with translucent skin above contrasts with the slender structure components, and the slightly cantilevered floor makes the light-filled box float on the ground, attracting people to walk in and bringing them relaxation and peace in such rigorous working environment. 

Rough, temporary, shabby, industrialized, and non-architectural... A scaffolding always presents to be unfriendly, but it fascinates us. We hope that through the precise design and millimeter-scale construction, we can give scaffolding a decent completion and strip away its temporary and rough social meaning, and gradually, approaching its essence.