Shroud pavilion
Climate change, one of the most profound challenges of our time, has accelerated since the industrial revolution, marking a transition into what many describe as a post-nature condition. Human activity now permeates every natural process, transforming the Earth into an anthropogenic landscape. The Anthropocene thus emerges not only as a geological epoch but as an ethical and aesthetic threshold—an era defined by the awareness of our own planetary agency.
The Post-Nature Pavilion materializes this condition through architectural form. Constructed from scaffolding, concrete weights, and tension straps, the structure evokes both the provisional and the monumental. Its interior, veiled by a filtering net, shields the visitor from the surrounding weather—a speculative gesture toward a future in which architecture may serve as defense against the very environment it once sought to frame.
Yet the pavilion is not a prophecy of isolation, but a site for reflection. It embodies the tension between protection and participation, between technological control and ecological vulnerability. By confronting the paradox of human progress, the project invites dialogue on responsibility, collaboration, and the urgent need to reimagine our relationship to the more-than-human world before such enclosure becomes necessity rather than metaphor.
