Re-Processing Pavilion
2025-2026
Tactical Urbanism Installation
University of Pittsburgh | Extracurricular Work
Role: Project Designer and Team Member
Project Team: Alex Burgess, Brayden Heiges, Emma Lorenzo, Hanssy Vasquez Gomez, Holden King, Jake Thomas, Noah Pankiewicz, Victoria Rush, Zachary Miller
By constantly re-using and implementing the physical artifacts of our creative charrettes, this project seeks to merge the space of the design process with the space of occupation. In this vein, throughout the project we suspended our thinking as trained architectural specialists and instead thought as ordinary users of our campus environment. Using this framework, we intend to challenge traditional distinctions between architects-citizens and process-product.
This project was entirely student-run and minimally funded. Rather than solely being a reaction to our limited resources, decisions such as upcycling materials and proposing a minimal tensile structure contribute to our bottom-up and tactical approach.
During our charrettes, we frequently misappropriated precise architectural representations, sometimes from Pitt’s strategic campus master plan, and juxtaposed them with our processual sketches and intuitive collages. In this, we shaped the conditions for unexpected, often humorous, outputs. This comical, critical spirit was further reflected on the day of the installation in our absurd structural problem-solving and way the wind reshaped the pavilion’s form various times.
By enveloping users in a comprehensive collage and holding both a public engagement activity and an exhibition of student artwork, the installation sought to extend our creative process to broader publics while superimposing the temporality of process onto that of use.
Public Collage Over Campus Map:
Charrette Archive:
