For this conservation activity centre commissioned by the Royal Botanic Gardens, a lightweight, energy autonomous paper pavilion was designed in response to the sensitive, natural, and historical setting. Composed as a modular system of paper tube tree columns and branching paper tube space frame roof structures, the building read as a canopied paper forest within the gardens.
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