Ickworth House Pavilion
Between 2018 and 2020, National Trust planned conservation works on Ickworth House as part of the Ickworth Uncovered Programme. David Kohn Architects in collaboration with Pablo Bronstein designed a temporary pavilion on the grounds of Ickworth House.
This temporary intervention seeks to create an alternative and fantastical version of Ickworth House and the architecture found on the Grand Tour, that comments on the anachronisms found in the history of classical architecture. The installation primarily comprises an overall treatment of recycled plastic classical columns combined with both ornamental and more prosaic references of fragments from inside Ickworth House that plays with the sense of scale and illusory trompe l’oeil effects to create a sense of drama for visitors.
The construction primarily employs materials that are used to reproduced classical architecture today, posing the question of how to create an architectural statement or folly in our contemporary age. The pavilion enters into Ickworth House’s ‘spirit of place’, as an unexpected re-imagining of its identity that provides a conversation piece about the issues faced in the development of grand house architecture from a contemporary perspective. It provides a unique canvas for Pablo Bronstein and David Kohn Architects to collaborate together to explore the ongoing interplay between classical order and surface decoration in contemporary architecture.
Project
Art installation
Location
Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
Client
National Trust
Status
On hold
Design Team
David Kohn, Jessica Lyons, Philip Dring, Bushra Mohammed
Collaborators
Pablo Bronstein