MPavilion Dancer
MPavilion. Kings Domain, Melbourne
Completed
Commissioned chair design for the 2021 season of MPavilion, an annual architectural pavilion located in the Kings Domain of Melbourne. MPavilion 2021 was designed by Italian architecture firm MAP Studio.
Photo credits: Gavin Green, Nuud Studio
Recognition:
2022 Design Insitute of Australia, Designers Australia ‘Use’ Award for MPavilion ‘Dancer Chair’
2022 Good Design Award for MPavilion ‘Dancer Chair’
2022 Designers Institue of New Zealand, Best Design Awards, Silver Pin for MPavilion ‘Dancer Chair’
The Dancer chair draws on the optimism of reconnecting, embracing and dancing together again. The chairs are first conceived as a singular, drawn circle under the canopy of the MPavilion. The individual chairs then form from the divisions of equal segments with each chair bearing the mark of open hands. The chairs disconnect and embrace in a continuous dance in and around the pavilion forming arcs and ribbons as events and meetings are held.
Each chair is a gentle arc, a memory of the greater circler they can form again. The interactive nature of the project and its ideas of unity and togetherness considers the rituals of communal gathering and how we might repair our apprehension to public socialising today.
The Dancer chairs are made from recycled milk and juice bottles which are first shredded, melted, dyed and turned into pellets to then be combined and composed into any mixture of colours. The composition of colours for the chair reflect the flowing yellow ground, steel structure and reflection of the clouds in the LightCatcher MPavilion.
