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The Challenge
A 36-metre cantilever over an eroding sea cliff in a high-seismic, high-wind coastal zone. Site access was limited to a single 4 m wide road, ruling out conventional pour sequences.
On the project
A horizontal datum stretched between mountain and water. Glass that disappears, concrete that remembers.
The pavilion is a single horizontal line drawn between cliff and Pacific. We removed everything that wasn't a roof, a floor, and a frame for the horizon.
The roof is a 36-metre cantilever, post-tensioned in three directions, supported by a single pair of bronze columns. The structure is a quiet act of bravery · engineering as meditation.
At dusk the building disappears entirely. Only the line of the water remains, and the slow burn of light on bronze.
