KSR Architects has won a competition to design a public pavilion for the first Camden Create Festival, which will take place in London’s Camden town 13th-15th May 2014.
The ‘pop-up artwork’ will be located at the iconic Britannia junction outside Camden Town Underground Station for the duration of the festival, which s part of a wider strategy implemented by the organisers, Camden Town Unlimited promoting Camden Town as a place to work, live and visit. The Festival is also aimed at pomoting Camden’s ‘hidden creative community’.
KSR Architects, itself if based in Camden, says: ‘Brittania junction is a significant and key confluence of views and thoroughfares and the perfect location for an artwork that represents this hidden community.’
KSR Architects, working closely alongside ARUP and DW Plastics, have designed the free standing public pavilion to be installed quickly, overnight, making innovative use of a lightweight theatre and stage truss system that is hoisted up to hang over 640 multi-coloured and translucent tubes above the pedestrian square.
The architects, who are themselves based in Camden say: ‘The perfect square of compact coloured tubes represents the incredibly dense community of multi-disciplined creative businesses in Camden today. The tubes are hung like a kaleidoscopic wind chimes, allowing them to move and shape-shift in the wind. Each little collision represents the conversations, interactions, and networking being promoted between people.’
The Camden Create festival is part of a wider strategy implemented by the organisers, Camden Town Unlimited, promoting Camden Town as a place to work, live and visit.
