PERFECTION TO IMPERFECTION
VIETNAM PAVILION | Expo 2020 Dubai | Area 6300m²
Statut: competition | 2rd prize
Program: performance space, lake, exhibition area, restaurant, museum shop.
Hypothetical context would be the universal exposition 2020 in dubai where the technology experiences (mostly in construction domain) are really advanced in the city life and also in this expo itself. The vietnam pavilion comes to this architectural festival not only for presenting its national culture but to participate in the discussion between the perfection et the imperfection in new context of technology. In general, a future of construction based on the high technology (robot, 3d printing, cnc..) is very clear in which the completion can be achieved easily perfectly. However a such result makes our creative activities too textbook-finished or gives us “a boring perfection”. In this situation the imperfection which may come from “human mistake” (or natural state of material) becomes more and more impor tant. These controlled mistakes can bring us an interesting result and sometimes a positive surprise. In the case of vietnam pavilion, firstly its design was realized and suppor ted by computer using Rhinoceros-grasshopper which allows to parameterize an architectural drawing from a sketch-by-hand. And in the process of interpreting this technology tool gives an oppor tunity for respecting the origin of sketch at the greatest performance. It’s considered to be a perfect fabrication of the imperfection. The computer also helps furthermore to drive an precise producton of main structure. In the constructive stage a local material (bamboo) and the traditional techniques of construction (low-tech) are used with an intention to create a “human imperfection” for the pavilion.
Finally an imperfect circle takes a meaning of generosity in the vietnamese cultural base on which the local architecture has appreciated the liber ty and the unaffectedness of design.