Credits: Juhani Pallasmaa - http://www.pallasmaa.fi/

“We need an ascetic, concentrative and contemplative architecture, an architecture of silence.”

The Tea Pavillion / Gazebo Kuusi, Mäntyharju, Finland, 2002
Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect SAFA, Professor

The gazebo is located on the crest of a steep rock overlooking Lake Kallavesi, in eastern Finland. The view with its rock faces covered by lichen, immense boulders moved about by glacier, pine forests and the gleaming lake below brings to mind the landscape paintings of the Finnish masters of the period of National Romanticism in the end of the 19th century.

The building, located as a terminus of a winding foot path, is intended as a place for meals, celebration and meditation. It defines and frames the view and includes the sky as an element of the interior space. It is a kind of camera obscura that combines the exterior and interior spaces, the opposites of being sheltered and exposed. The structure is conceived as a device that simultaneously disorients and brings one in an intense relation with the landscape. The form of the building, resembling an erratic boulder, and the impression of flying were suggested by the powerful landscape of the site.

The structure consists of glued wooden frames, stiffened with steel plates and crossbracing. The windows are of laminated glass and they are suspended from steel bars. The amount of sunlight can be controlled with roller blinds made of thin bamboo slats.

The grey colour of the exterior resembles that of the surrounding boulders while the inside is stained in light bone colour.
The gazebo was first on display at water level on a flat shoreline at the Summer Exhibition of the Salmela Art Centre in 2002 before it was lifted on its final site by a huge crane.

Quelle /Copyright:
text, plans and photographs by courtesy of Juhani Pallasmaa,
Architect SAFA, Professor
http://www.pallasmaa.fi/

Der Tee Pavillion / Gazebo Kuusi, Mäntyharju, Finland, 2002

Der Architekt Johani Pallasmaa konzipierte dieses Experiment aus Form, Materialien und räumlichen Beziehungen.

Diese erstmals als Exponat im Kunstzentrum Salmela gezeigte Version eines kleinen Aussichtsgebäudes wurde im Auftrag eines Kunden im Osten Finnlands gebaut.

Auf der Klippe eines glazialen Felsens öffnet sich der Bau mit einer verglasten aufwärts gerichteten Vorderfront und Decke zu einem großartigen Naturschauspiel. Seine abgestumpfte kubische Form lässt an einen riesigen Felsenbrocken denken, der an eine Bergkuppe liegen geblieben ist.
Das Gebäude sei eine Camera obscura die unsere Gewohnheit ändert, die Landschaft als horizontales Panorama wahrzunehmen.

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