Architecture students from the University of Innsbruck have designed and built an angular timber and glass structure to provide a place for youngsters in the Austrian city to develop creative skills (+ slideshow).

The Bilding pavilion is located in Innsbruck's Rapoldi Park, on a plot provided by the city council.
Devised by a voluntary group connected to local architecture organisation Aut Architektur und Tirol, the project aims to encourage those aged from four to 19 to explore their artistic interests and talents.

Students from the university's Studio3 Institute for Experimental Architecture submitted 17 proposals for the structure as their bachelor theses, and from these a design by Niklas Nalbach was chosen by a supervisory panel.
"This project was chosen because of its openness and spatial continuum, with no rooms and no endings," said Verena Rauch, a tutor on the Studio3 course.
"It creates a sense of being embedded in the park, with landscape inside and outside."

The building features a glued timber-laminate framework resting on point-bearing concrete foundations. Its folded external surfaces are clad in white polymer sheets that are seamlessly welded to form a waterproof membrane.

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