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MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY<br />
Re-emerge pavilion:<br />
A collaboration between<br />
AA and Hassell<br />
In a collaboration at the heart of<br />
London’s Bedford Square, the Emergent<br />
Technologies and Design (EmTech)<br />
post-graduate programme at the<br />
Architectural Association (AA) joined<br />
forces with international architecture<br />
firm Hassell to create timber pavilion<br />
titled Re-Emerge.<br />
The EmTech post-graduate programme<br />
at the AA has a history in designing<br />
and creating structures and pavilions.<br />
And in 2021, this pavilion marked the<br />
first time since the pandemic that<br />
students could work together, fabricate<br />
and assemble a full-scale structure,<br />
according to Hassell.<br />
The Re-Emerge pavilion explores new<br />
design and construction technologies<br />
that repurpose materials which have<br />
completed their first lifecycle towards<br />
structural formations. The project<br />
addresses themes of generative design,<br />
material computation, large-scale<br />
fabrication and assembly technologies,<br />
emphasising the pavilion’s ecological<br />
impact from the early<br />
phases of the<br />
design process<br />
onwards.<br />
For this collaboration, Hassell<br />
gave the students the challenge<br />
to keep the carbon footprint of the<br />
project to a minimum and only use<br />
reclaimed timber.<br />
Xavier Kestelier, one of the heads<br />
of design at Hassell, said, “The<br />
students took on the challenge<br />
and decided early on to build<br />
the pavilion out of timber from<br />
reclaimed wooden pallets.”<br />
WOOD IN ARCHITECTURE • ISSUE 2 – <strong>2023</strong> 33
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