The Little Fake Forest
Location Mississauga, ON, Canada
Program Pavilion + Rest Station
Course 1B Design Studio (Winter 2021)
Supervisor Cam Parkin
The little fake forest is a small pavilion and resting station along the Lisgar Meadow Brook Trail in Mississauga, ON. Situated by Osprey March, a man-made pond designed to control storm-water, the pavilion aims to pay homage to the site and heighten its synthetic nature. Resembling a bundle of trees from another universe, the little fake forest is extremely contrasted by the nature surrounding it. White-coated steel plates and HSS are used to create several shapes that prompt different programmatic intents such as eating, reading, sketching, or viewing the water. The creation and iteration of a formal language was the driver for the project. Ultimately, the little fake forest brings tail users together in an attempt to strengthen Mississauga’s cultural identity.
This project consisted of two phases. In the first phase, material, programmatic and site considerations were stripped and a formal language with a clear logic was to be developed. In phase two, the formal language was to inform a pavilion design in whatever scale, keeping in mind prompts that were not analyzed in the first phase.
Phase 2 adds layers of complexity to the created formal language, considering site, program, materiality and more.
Spinning Plate Detail