Waterfront Museum Pavilion

A three-level museum pavilion whose upper gallery cantilevers over the quayside promenade on a handful of slender composite columns.

A three-level museum pavilion whose upper gallery cantilevers over the quayside promenade on a handful of slender composite columns.

Concept

Keep the ground plane public: the building lifts its main gallery one level up so the promenade flows underneath uninterrupted.

Delivery

The cantilever geometry was rationalised in Grasshopper, then handed to the steel contractor as a Tekla model with fabrication-level connections.

Impact

The shaded ground floor has become the most-used stretch of the promenade — exactly the brief.

Photography: Dosseman — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.