Section and back elevation at  1:20

After spending time on the Global Garden site (Flaxland avenue, Cardiff) during the month of September, I realized that a large number of apples from the central apple tree were left to rot on the floor. Kathy, a neighbour of the site, told me that she came every year during early autumn to collect apples to make tarts and jams. Nonetheless, I saw that a very large amount of apples were still going to waste. 
This design, therefore, aims at providing a proportional solution to this waste problem whilst also creating a space to generate new collective experiences for communities in Cardiff. 
This palette Pavilion will offer all the required spaces and devices to allow allotment owners, people from Global Gardens and children, to press apples and drink the juice or alternatively allow it to ferment to become cider. In a circular fashion, people will move clockwise within the building, completing all the stages of making juice and cider; this process terminates in the open half of the pavilion, where benches and standing space allow people to enjoy the fruit of their efforts while overlooking the site and the tree that provided them with the apples.

Site analysis  diagram

Site plan at 1:100

Elevation of the central tree structure

Elevation of the central tree structure, with the apple press

Plan of the central tree structure

Floor plan at 1:20

Apple juice and the cider-making process taking place within the pavilion 

Back view - (Model photograph)

Internal view - (Model photograph)

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