Teaser images in advance of The Pavilion's inaugural screening event/activation of Screen in the Landscape, our Open-Air Cinema!

Have a look at the process of how we constructed it: from felling, peeling, carving the logs of the 16'x9' cinema frame, to planning, excavating and seeding the amphitheatre area, this project has been a labour of love.

 

After many years of dreaming (and LOADS of hard work), we are very close our first projection. 

Stay tuned! 

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The Pavilion Celebrates 10 Years!

The Pavilion is a long-term, interdisciplinary project, founded by Holly Ward in 2019 for her yearlong Artist-In Residence project at Langara College, Vancouver. This project performed as a creative catalyst for artistic collaboration, experimentation and pedagogy.

 

In 2011, on the invitation from Jane Irwin and Ross Hill, the Pavilion was moved to its current location in Heffley Creek BC, otherwise known as Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, the traditional, unceded territory of the Secwépemc peoples.

 

Since then, artist Kevin Schmidt has joined the Pavilion, and extensive efforts have been made to transform this temporary, urban artist project into a long-term, land-based artist facility.

 

2021 marks the 10^th anniversary of this 

independent, land-based iteration of 

the Pavilion!! 

 

 

Ward and Schmidt are happy to announce that they have finally reached their goal of completing major infrastructural work on this facility, and thanks to the continued support of Irwin and Hill, as well as countless friends and colleagues over the years who have pitched in their talents, labour, and emotional support for this endeavour… you know who you are, 

and we will love you forever!

 

Keep an eye on this space and follow us on Instagram  

@pavilion_domestead, @hollyjaneward and @screeninthelandscape 

as we will be posting and sharing news about upcoming events 

planned for summer 2021. 

See you soon!

 

XO the Pavilion (AKA the Domestead)

 

 

The Pavilion 

is featured in the  Women Deliver Conference

 as part of the Designing Cities exhibit. 

Curated by Germain Koh, the exhibition documents the work of over 2 dozen female-identified artists working in, on and around urban space.

The project will be launched in conjunction with BC Women’s Infrastructure Network, who will be hosting the event launch and panel discussion, from 6-8:30 pm on June 7.

The exhibit can be viewed at the Vancouver Public Library on the 8th floor, and runs from June 3-21, 2019.

Women Deliver: Designing Cities 

The Pavilion gets some love!

This winter, The Pavilion has been featured in articles in

 01 Magazine and Canadian Art

Check it out!

Summer 2015 Domework

The past summer's domework was a whirlwind of 

construction tasks and creative projects. 

There was simply no time to keep up with the blog posts, 

so in the "better late than never" category, I will be posting 

lots of images of what we accomplished during the next few 

weeks, as well as info on what to look forward to 

next Spring at The Pavilion.

From the North, looking down the valley.

 We needed more space in the interior for amenities, 

but did not want to infringe on the space of the dome itself. 

 

 From the NorthEast. 

Creating additions onto a geodesic dome is notoriously 

difficult. Since we did not want to 'interrupt' the shape 
of the dome, we thought it would be interesting to make 
a collision between the form of the dome, and the local 
architectural vernacular of the single-sloped tin roof 
rancher's shed.

From the NorthWest

We thought of the additions as an interesting collision 

between two very different kinds of buildings, like an 
illustration of two  worlds colliding, visually linking the form 
of The Pavilion to it's context in rural Heffley Creek.

From the South.

Following the scale of the dome's triangles (the widest edge 

being roughly 4'), we simply removed triangles to create 

passageways into the addition areas.

 

We created a 9'x18' rectangular addition to contain 
kitchen/bath, a 9' wide double sliding door over the deck 
with a sloped awning to protect from the hot summer sun, 
and a 4' x'4 mudroom to the North.

A thousand thank-you's to Vancouver-based architect 
Christian Kliegel for helping us with the sketchup models.

Back to the Domestead, 2015 

   

Heading back to the Pavilion after another 9 months in Germany, we weren't sure what to expect: when we left, we had just completed the roof, installed the windows, and the last bits of wood siding had been installed after our departure, meaning we didn't even really know what it looked like as a whole.

 The entire exterior shell had been an experiment: the folded sheet steel application should have worked in theory, but how did it winter? And how did our non-conventional, unwarrantied triangular windows actually perform?

Fortunately, we discovered that the interior was bone-dry, and that both the roof and the windows performed beautifully!  

We were also very pleased with the look of the siding: seeing it all installed really brought a cohesiveness to the exterior. 

 

 This summer of dome-work was very jam-packed, as Kevin and I are developing some collaborative projects that I am excited to share, as well as more posts about the infrastructure work we completed this year, so now that we are back on the internet, stay tuned for more posts in the very near future! 

 Triangular Windows!

 The steel roof was completed beautifully, with each 
piece needing to be painstakingly measured and cut 
individually (Thank you Darcy and Dave at Focus 
Roofing!), and so we were finally ready to install 

all the windows and doors:

  

Kevin and Stephanie installing our triangular 

windows on the dome surface using a pallet 

on tractor forks to reach.

 

We worked with local window manufacturers Desmond 
Industries to come up with a triangular window/skylight 
design we all felt would work. 

Since the windows are on a steep slope, we designed 
windows that would be flashed on 2 sides, and have an 
overhanging glass edge on the low side to shed snow, 
ice and water, an oldschool skylight technique.


The Siding!

 

 

Here you can see the dome from the South with all 

the windows and the sliding glass door to the patio 

nicely installed!

At the same time, we started installing the reverse 

board and batten fir siding, which you can see Paul 

here working on in the 38 degree heat.

 First, we ripped all the 6" boards down into 4" and 2" 

widths to create the profile we desired, and stacked 

them so that the air could cure them before installing. 

Then, with the help of family and friends (Thank 

you Jen Weih, Marianne Bos and Joan Schmidt!), 

we stained front and back and all sides of each 

board...which only took about two weeks!

 

 

Ladder love...

 

 The rough-hewn, black stained fir will also be applied in wider, 

horizontal strips to cover the facia, above.

 

View from the North looking South down the Valley. 

Note the 2 skylights we installed in the addition: 

one in the kitchen, the other in the bath.  

Thanks for those, Ross!

 The siding crew enjoying a cold one (or three) at the end of a 

very hot day of installing black siding in the sun. 

Thanks Paul, Hank, Stephanie and Keith!

 The dome nearing the final stages of completing the exterior....

just a bit more siding to go!

Thanks to friends and family who made the trip up this year to pitch in and help: Ron and Joan Schmidt, Jen Weih, Kahn Lee, Marianne Bos, Suzanne Ward, and Brendan Tang, we could not have done this without your help!!

And of course a million thanks to Jane Irwin and Ross Hill, 

project patrons and amazing friends.