The Green Pavilion, a glass pavilion with a pyramidal roof, was designed by architect Odile Decq to evoke historic orangeries and installed in the Jardin des Tuileries as part of the Paris+ par Art Basel art fair.
Decq was commissioned by Galerie Philippe Gravier to create a functional art piece to be placed in the iconic public gardens during the 2022 edition of the art fair, which concluded on 5 November.
The pavilion was located in the Jardin des Tuileries
The Green Pavilion is an updated version of The Black Pavilion that Decq created in 2015 for the gardens of a 17th-century castle in Rouen, which recreated the form of a pavilion found on the castle's grounds in black one-way glass intended to reflect the surrounding landscape.
It was never erected on its proposed site but instead used as an installation piece on the Place de la Concorde during the FIAC Art Fair of 2019. It has a pyramidal roof
For the new pavilion, the architect swapped the black glass for transparent glazing and adapted the design to allow it to function as a greenhouse that evokes the kitchen gardens created on this site in the 16th century.
"The Green Pavilion refers to a very simple way of building greenhouses in private parks," Decq told Dezeen.
"It was designed with a minimalistic structure, the bare minimum to hold the massive glass panels. The steel structure is left rough as it is."
The Green Pavilion was filled with herbs and citrus plants
The glazed structure allowed pas...