AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure, Responsible Consumption & Production, Climate Action, Life On Land
KEYWORDS
design, biobased, circular economy, architecture, pavilion
COUNTRY
Netherlands
DESIGNED BY
Pascal Leboucq | Company New Heroes
WEBSITE
http://www.thegrowingpavilion.com
The Growing Pavilion
Implementing healthier and sustainable materials in a public space that celebrates biobased economy
With The Growing Pavilion we show the possibilities and the enormous beauty of biobased and circular construction. Any material, such as the mycelium walls and cattail floorboards, are visible in its natural
raw material. In this way, the pavilion gets a unique, organic texture, color and experience. We promote this beauty as a force. A new aesthetic that gives biobased materials their own, wonderful identity.
The pavilion shows what the near future will bring in the field of biobased construction. We place ourselves in a vulnerable position as well, because our ideal pavilion houses many new organically grown materials. But, it takes more than good materials to make large-scale applications possible: upscaling of production; appropriate regulations; innovative designers and conscious consumers. The Growing Pavilion puts this issue on the agenda, because it is essential to achieve the desired transition to a biobased and circular economy.