C-Shore is a pavilion designed and constructed by graduate students at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, led by Associate Professor Joseph Dahmen.
Photo credit: Krista Jahnke photography
The project relates material ecologies to design poetics. Building on Peter Zumthor?s design for the Swiss Sound Pavilion at Expo 2000, nine architecture and two landscape architecture graduate students devloped C-Shore using cedar timber milled from native trees felled during site preparation at a nearby residential construction site.
The pavilion provides a multi-sensory space of respite and relaxation at the heart of the busy university campus.
The porous wall shoring ensures adequate airflow to dry the freshly milled cedar timbers under ambient conditions, generating a cool microclimate infused with the scent of drying cedar. Photo credit: Krista Jahnke photography
Photo credit: Krista Jahnke photography
The opacity of the walls varies with the angle of view, creating dynamic interactions between interior and exterior characterized by variegated bands of daylight and shadow.
The pavilion interior resonates with sounds recorded in the forest ecosystem before, during, and after tree felling took place, drawing links between the pavilion and the vanished ecosystem that provided the materials to build it.
It is also secured with an adjustable clamping system that accommodates the shrinkage as the timbers dry, allowing for efficient disasse...