Priory Park Pavilion, Surrey, southeast England

Priory Park Pavilion, Reigate, Surrey, southeast England, UK 2007 Dominique Perrault International competition, winning project May 2005 client Reigate & Banstead Borough Council, Castlefield Road, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 0SH, UK contact Nina Porter, Project Manager architect Dominique Perrault Architecte, Paris, France + engineering Buro Happold, Bath, UK; Momentum, Bath, UK location Priory Park, Reigate gross floor area 350 m² built volume 1 224 m³ building height 3,60 m start of conceptual design 2005 construction start Jan 2007 estimated construction period 6 months budget 570 000 GBP or 832 000 € excluding taxes (value 2006) Images + text from Dominique Perrault Program Visitor Center of the Priory Park, information, café, toilets and office. design concept The Priory Park Pavilion - transparency with(in) the context and the landscape. The Pavilion is searching for a dialectic between the artificial and the natural. Beyond the functional spatial quality, the project brings the play between «nature» and «culture» into a self-reflexive, «scintillating» representation. The Pavilion positions itself at the interface of the main entrance axises of the Park, between the sunken garden and the water play, on a green carpet in front of the monk’s way. This green carpet, consisting of different circular lawns of different species, acts as the required picnic lawn, while offering in a further dimension the necessary grounding for the pavilion. The pavilion alone, however, is not enough. It relies on its context to develop communication with its environment. Priory Park Reigate images / information from Dominique Perrault by disk received 230307