It is a dense array of 258 vertical stainless steel columns.

Holding a 3mm stainless steel forest canopy loft with a cut out in the roof directly above a clearing at the ground level. It reinforces the idea of the colonnades with its height. The height is approximately 8m from the ground which is also the height of the adjacent colonnades. It encourages an interaction in terms of view but also movement by turning the grain of the pavilion to 45 degrees where people walk in at either side or encourages them to diagonally cross through and the main route is the reinforcement of that engagement. Last of all, the form of the overall pavilion is relating to it approach from two direction. GPSTube down there which the pavilion presents a kind of open face, a realisation that something is there a new marker that something kind of goes on there. (other art nearby as well) The pavilion sits over an underground car park. Deep foundations were impossible. The columns sit on a 250mm concrete plinth. Each column is 50x50mm with a 4mm wall thickness. The colours reflected from its surrounding. The desired high strength steel at around 450N/mm2 could not be sourced at the requisite size. A lower strength steel resulted in a 15% increase on the weight of the structure. The structure was designed so that the column clusters, in part, sheltered each other from the wind. But it still had to deal with buckling caused by imposed snow loads together with unavoidable lateral wind and drag loads. The engineers had to consider people likely unusual scenarios that the structure might face.They imagined a guy climbing to the midpoint and push the columns apart and what damage would that cause. They exerted the maximum load a human could muster and built the structure in a way that a scenario like that wouldn't cause damage.

In order to retain the integrity of the design, no cross bracing was permitted. The way that stability is achieved is through the use of a lot of portal frames and not a pure cantilever. Rigorous testing was carried out in the wind tunnels of BMT Fluid Mechanics in Teddington and using full scale mock ups at the BRE in Watford.

Inside each column there is a rubber-sleeved iron rod, hanging from a wire. When wtind blows or people shake the columns, the impact of the rod on the side of the

column is enough to dissipate all of the energy so the columns won't resonate and fall apart. A steel grid work was cast into the slab to act as reinforcement and as positioning for the 1500 stainless steel holding down bolts.