PUP Architects builds rooftop pavilion disguised as warehouse air duct
PUP Architects has installed a "subversive" duct-shaped pavilion on the roof of a canal-side warehouse in east London, to provoke local planning authorities to reconsider the area's development.
The London studio run by Theo Molloy, Chloe Leen and Steve Wilkinson drew up the design for the Architecture Foundation's new Antepavilion programme, an annual commission sponsored by the property developer Shiva.
The structure joins a collection of other pavilions commissioned by Shiva in recent years for the roof of its Columbia Wharf studios.
These buildings have all been designed as prototypes for alternative ways to live in the city. They aim to challenge decisions by the local planning department to allow a spate of luxury housing blocks to be built along Regent's Canal ? while other types of projects are very difficult to win approval for. For instance, Shiva was denied planning permission to build a simple "beach house" on the roof back in 2016 ? although it went ahead and built it anyway.
PUP Architects decided to model the pavilion on a duct after finding a loop-hole in local planning laws that allowed for a two-storey service structure to be affixed to the top of the roof.
"We wanted to provoke a conversation about why, if you can build this type of strange plant equipment on the rooftop, why can we not use it in a more positive way, to inhabit and liberate all these hundreds of thousands of square metres of rooftop space""...
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