MOCA PAVILION
Like a fist punching into a rubber sheet, chunky jacks are pressed into exterior surfaces resulting in deep, dark involutions on the exterior and heavy mass on the interior. Angular silhouettes disappear into super-thin surfaces, achieved with structural Kevlar.
Read MoreBlack materiality falls off into total darkness, creating a sense of ambiguity and opacity. Like the skin of a manta ray, pavilion components are finished with an ultra-matte rubber-like coating that is soft and velvety to the touch.
LOCATION
Los Angeles, California
TYPE
Pavilion
YEAR
2013
CLIENT
Museum
of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
CURATORS
Thom Mayne/ Christopher Mount
DESIGN TEAM
PROJECT TEAM
The
pavilion’s construction system is composite monocoque with variable-depth
honeycomb core material.
Like the skin of a manta ray, pavilion components are finished with an ultra-matte rubber-like coating that is soft and velvety to the touch.
