Halo Pavilion

From the quay the pavilion reads as a single calm mass. The membrane is a warm off-white textile with a matte finish, ribbed at regular intervals so the surface catches low light without glare.

Two entrances cut the ring at opposite points, aligned with the dominant pedestrian routes across the site. Each entrance is a compressed threshold: 2.1 metres high against the 7.8-metre body.

Inside, the ring holds a single continuous room, 4.5 metres wide, that loops around the open courtyard. Visitors walk the full circle without doors or corners.

The floor is a recycled rubber surface in a tone close to the membrane, so the boundary between wall and ground dissolves in peripheral vision.

The membrane transmits roughly 18 percent of daylight, producing an interior that is bright but shadowless. Sunset shifts the room through a slow sequence of warm greys.

At night eight short-throw projectors, hidden in the service plinth, turn the inner surface into a continuous moving image. Content was commissioned from three media artists over the season.

The plan is two concentric circles. The outer line is the pressurised envelope; the inner line is the courtyard edge. Entrances, plinth segments and emergency exits are the only interruptions.

The envelope was fabricated in eight welded segments, each sized to fit a standard pallet. On site, assembly took four days with a crew of six and no heavy machinery.

After the season the pavilion was cleaned, repaired at two seams and redeployed for a winter programme in Ghent.