Serendipity Pavilion 2023

Grant Project for a Pop-Up Library at the Serendipity Arts Festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Serendipity Arts Festival invites artists and creative practitioners to propose experimental interventions in the urban realm of the city of Panaji. This project was executed through this competition as a ‘non-library’ and was one of the four projects to receive the Serendipity Arts Festival Public Art Grant 2023. Every year, BookWorm foundation, a non-profit library for children, establishes a reading room in the dense canopy of the forest abutting the Mandovi river. Our proposal engages with this wonderful idea of reading a book in the forest creating a node – a light, minimal enclosure that can playfully house the library and other programming including small skits, readings and recitations, as well as evening performances. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INFORMATION

Location: Art Park, Promenade, Panaji, Goa

Client: Serendipity Arts Festival 2023 – Public Arts Project – Competition Winner– Pop-up Library by Bookworm Goa
Civil Contractor: Amirchand Pandit

Fabricator: Laxmi Metal Art

Electrical Contractor: Arvind Gunani

Design Team: Stuthi Mehta, Tharun CM, Rishiraj Sarkar, Isha Raut, Ruturaj Parikh
Built-Up Area: 98 Sq M
Status: Completed
Photographs: The Photo Architects, Ankit George, Maanasi Hattangadi

Drawings: Studio Matter

 

 

 

 

Designed as an intersection of a square and a circle, the pavilion engages with the notion of indiscipline, asymmetry and play with a meandering wall and a frame that lends itself to a multitude of programmatic engagements: theatre, workshops, story-telling sessions etc. A porous public container, the architecture of the space breaks away from the monotony of a white-box / black-box spatial constructs that enable display and performance. The structure attempts to dissolve the rigid boundaries between inside and outside; between architecture and landscape.