Hyde Park Music Pavilion

THE CIRCLE

Music is something universal. It brings people from all around the world together. To keep that unifying spirit, we decided to represent it by the circle.
The circle is since all time, a shape that invit to share and be together. Stonehenge, probably the oldest monument in the world, has a circle shape. Historians say that although its origin is still a mystery, Stonehenge has been used as a site of ceremony throughout history.
May it be a Gladiators arena, the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre or the place we sit around the fire ; may it be ceremonies, shows, theaters or simply storytellers ; the circle, in every scale, unifies people.

CONCEPT - INSIDE OUT

The idea of this circular pavilion is first of all to be connected with the hole park. Its shape inspire the unification ; people are naturaly attracted to the center of the circle. As the Stonehenge, the middle of the pavilion is empty. It is meant to welcome people. The main fonction of this pavilion is a place for music shows. The circle opens on a stage, which is flexible. For little or private shows, people are welcomed in the circle to enjoy them. But for bigger shows, the inside becomes the outside, the circle reverses to open to everyone in the park. The park is the audience and the pavilion is the stage.

PROGRAM

The whole program is contained in the thickness of the circle. To access the pavilion, there is an empty space in the circle that opens to the center, which opens to the stage. The program contains some service rooms (cloakroom, deposit and lodges), and a restaurant that opens on the outside. The main space is the central one, delimited by the constructed part, it is an inside. Nevertheless opened on the sky, standing in that central part, people still feel in the park. The fonction of that place is flexible. It can welcome not only a public for shows, but also temporary exibitions, different activities as much as a space for all kind of repetitions or meetings.