Pavilion let’s play! celebrates games in all their forms at the occasion of the Villa Medici Festival des Cabanes 2022. Its open-air structure and wooded curves offer the public a sensory, playful and sporting experience.
The game begins at the entrance, where the spiral structure gradually guides the visitor to the central area. Punctuated by basketball nets at different heights and football cages, it encourages young and old to play ball games.
The regulatory format of the sports fields is here distorted in favour of a rounded and sculptural enclosure, encouraging the free and creative use of the space by the users. The pavilion can host sports initiations, artistic performances or conferences.
Invited by DREAM, the dance company Wang Ramirez imagined a choreography in relation with the pavilion. The video “Roma: Wang Ramirez x DREAM” traces this encounter between dance and architecture. Pavilion let’s play! is presented for the first time in the occasion of the Villa Medici Festival des Cabanes and then in the Grand Parc des Docks de Saint-Ouen starting from spring 2023 as part of the Paris 2024 Games.
Choreography and dance performance: Wang Ramirez Film director: Derek Pedros Paviliondesign: DREAM Film producer: Association Rêve Music: Patrick Watson, Courtesy of Secret city records Inc.
Year of conception: 2022
Construction materials: wooden cabin, glued laminated floor and wooden sticks, recycled wooden furniture, nets, basketball nets.
Dimensions: 13.5 x 13.5 x 6.5 metres Key figures:
The pavilion contains 44 m3 of wood which stores almost 40 t of CO2
The pavilion has 316 wooden canes
Design of the pavilion with parametric tools (20% material saving achieved)
Design and production: DREAM agency, Paris, France
Manufacture and production: CBS-Lifteam Production: Association Rêve
About DREAM
DREAM is an architectural practice founded in 2018 by Dimitri Roussel. The company carries out projects of various types – housing, offices, sports facilities, mixed programmes, transient architecture – driven by a social commitment and strong environmental ambitions. A specialist in wood construction in France, the agency designed one of the first buildings with a low carbon label in Bordeaux in 2018. It has since started work on the Arboretum site in Nanterre, the largest wood-structured campus in Europe covering 125,000 m², and is taking part in the construction of the Athletes’ Village for Paris 2024.
Honored with several Awards (Timber construction Award 2022, 40under40 Award 2022, shortlisted for the Mies Van Der Rhoe Award 2022), DREAM’work has been exhibited at the Biennale of Architecture of Bordeaux and Lyon (France).
Created by Dimitri Roussel in 2022, Rêve is a non-profit cultural organisation intended to promote art and architecture.
It is a space for experimentation, where architecture interacts with other disciplines to create new artistic collaborations and support projects outside conventional frameworks.
The Pavilion Let’s play! was the first project supported by the organisation.
The video Wang Ramirez x DREAM is its second project.
Wang Ramirez
Honji Wang is recognized as an artist who brings contemporary and hip hop together in an exceptionally organic fashion. Her dance language is an abstraction of hip hop dance and has influences of earlier martial arts and ballet training.
Sébastien Ramirez specializes in the use of aerial work as well as choreographic rigging development. The underground scene, followed by a number of competitions, collaborations and encounters consolidated his artistic vision. In 2007 he founded his company in Perpignan. Integrating a new vision of space and choreography, the company’s distinct language brought hip hop dance to a wider and new audience.
The duo began a collaboration in 2010, and have since created major works that place them at the heart of contemporary dance today. Wang Ramirez was part of Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour. Wang has also collaborated with flamenco dancer Rocío Molina, with British choreographer Akram Khan, as well as with New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns in a series of duets. In 2014, they were appointed Associate Artist at L’Archipel, National Theater of Perpignan and in 2018 at Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.
About CBS-Lifteam
The CBS-Lifteam group is specialised in the design and construction of wood buildings and in the expertise related to wood materials. The 30 years of innovation perfects the architectural gesture and the added value makes it possible to concretise the projects while respecting the original intention. The motto “More engineering, less material” is shared by the 120 employees in the subsidiaries in France, Switzerland, Portugal and Guyana.
Piveteaubois is the leading softwood sawmiller and industrial manufacturer of timber solutions for the construction, garden & landscaping and wood energy markets in France. Piveteaubois is a family-run business with a deep passion for wood and over 65 years expertise from selecting the best quality softwood from eco-certified forests in France and Poland, to wood processing as well as designing, manufacturing and delivering high-quality and innovative timber products.
About Rothoblaas
For 30 years Rothoblaas has been engaged to finding solutions for the improvement of the timber construction sector, and today is one of the most innovative partners in the development of products and services for building professionals.
