FreelandBuck has installed a pavilion in a Palo Alto plaza comprising triangular panels imprinted with images of the public enjoying the same site on a day last year.

Cache Me if You Can is on view in front of the Palo Alto City Hall. Its exterior is printed with images that chart the movement of people, shadow and light in the area on a single day, 31 May 2019.
The studio developed the project to understand the various narratives that occupy a site.

"The project, commissioned by the City of Palo Alto, is a three-dimensional, materialised image documenting the life of the plaza over the course of one day," FreelandBuck said.
"The resulting pavilion engages the idea that there is not one single view, or narrative, that surrounds our experience of architecture."
To construct the installation, the architects used 10 identical triangular panels cut from rigid PVC sheets. Each sheet was perforated with tiny holes and printed with a pattern digitally crafted from a series of documentary images of the site captured by Alex Kim in May 2019.
Kim's pictures were converted into a pattern of overlapping circles, which turned a single pixel of an original photograph into five circles on the installation. From a distance the imagery is clear, but up close it is a blur of colours.

"In this case, we worked with images of the site, articulating them graphically as a pattern of overlapping circles," the designers said. "Each pixel of the photograph pro...