Shigeru Ban is best known for his post-disaster zone design projects, such as his temporary housing project underway in Onagawa to replace homes lost in the tsuanmi and a temporary building to replace the historic cathedral in the quake-ravaged city of Christchurch.
Now he has designed a new temporary structure for the Dasha Zhukova's Garage Centre of Contemporary Culture while it transitions from its old one to a new OMA-designed space. The new 70,000-Square-foot temporary pavilion in Moscow's Gorky Park will host exhibition and education programmes until 2013, beginning with Temporary Structures in Gorky Park: From Melnikov to Ban. Using rare archival drawings, the exhibition will reveal the history of structures created in the park since it was established in 1923, before moving through the Russian avant-garde period to finish with some of the most interesting contemporary unrealised designs created by russian architects today.
Image: model of Shigeru Ban's temporary pavilion in Gorky Park
Now he has designed a new temporary structure for the Dasha Zhukova's Garage Centre of Contemporary Culture while it transitions from its old one to a new OMA-designed space. The new 70,000-Square-foot temporary pavilion in Moscow's Gorky Park will host exhibition and education programmes until 2013, beginning with Temporary Structures in Gorky Park: From Melnikov to Ban. Using rare archival drawings, the exhibition will reveal the history of structures created in the park since it was established in 1923, before moving through the Russian avant-garde period to finish with some of the most interesting contemporary unrealised designs created by russian architects today.
Image: model of Shigeru Ban's temporary pavilion in Gorky Park
