{"id":102085,"date":"2025-08-22T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102085\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:20:05","slug":"in-praise-of-shadows-places-polycarbonate-pavilion-in-stockholm-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102085\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Shadows places polycarbonate pavilion in Stockholm park"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pavilion<\/a> by Swedish studio In Praise of Shadows<\/a>, originally created as a companion piece for a Venice Architecture Biennale<\/a> design, has been placed in Stockholm’s Rosendal Garden.<\/p>\n

Now called Paviljong Rosendal, the building was originally developed as a sister pavilion to a wooden loggia, which In Praise of Shadows<\/a> showed at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018.<\/p>\n

\"WoodenPaviljong Rosendal has a translucent polycarbonate skin<\/p>\n

Paviljong Rosendal has been on display in the Sundbyberg suburb of Stockholm for the past two years, where it was used as a space for public dialogue during an urban planning process.<\/p>\n

It has now been donated by owner Folkhem, a developer that builds wooden houses, to the Rosendal Garden park in Stockholm.<\/p>\n

\"DetailIt was painted in a colour used for buildings in the area<\/p>\n

To align with the area’s local building traditions, In Praise of Shadows gave the pavilion a colour update, painting it in the characteristic green hue often used in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

“At Rosendal, the exterior wood was painted in a locally traditional green colour to anchor it to the site,” Fredric Benesch, who co-founded In Praise of Shadows with Katarina Lundeberg, told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

\"PaviljongThe pavilion looks like a “glowing lantern” in winter<\/p>\n

While the original biennale pavilion was open to the elements, the Swedish version features a polycarbonate<\/a> skin, which was necessary to protect the structure from the country’s harsh winters while bringing added privacy.<\/p>\n

“The wooden structure is identical, but while the Venice pavilion was an open loggia, the Swedish version was adapted to local climate conditions with the addition of a translucent polycarbonate skin,” Benesch said.<\/p>\n

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“This cladding provides wind protection, extends seasonal use and creates a glowing lantern effect in winter,” he added.<\/p>\n

The Paviljong Rosendal pavilion was designed as a “temporary, prefabricated wooden loggia that could be reused in different contexts”, Benesch said.<\/p>\n

\"InteriorIt will be used for meetings and events<\/p>\n

The studio chose to work with glued laminated timber<\/a> (glulam) because of the material’s practical benefits.<\/p>\n

“Working with wood was part of the brief,” Benesch said.<\/p>\n

“Glulam was chosen for its strength, prefabrication potential, and reusability. It enabled rational production with standardised dimensions, efficient assembly and disassembly, and an expressive structure with visible bolt heads.”<\/p>\n

\"PavilionThe pavilion has a new home in an orchard<\/p>\n

The pavilion will now have a permanent home in an orchard at Rosendal Garden, where it will be used for meetings, events and educational activities.<\/p>\n

Other recent examples of translucent architecture on Dezeen include a “cathedral of energy” with a polycarbonate tower<\/a> and a shed in New Zealand designed to also function as a light sculpture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Andrea Singer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pavilion by Swedish studio In Praise of Shadows, originally created as a companion piece for a Venice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,68109,68106,34210,64879,64880,33479,6804,68108,68107],"class_list":{"0":"post-102085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-glued-laminated-timber","14":"tag-in-praise-of-shadows","15":"tag-pavilions","16":"tag-sectionall","17":"tag-sectionarchitecture","18":"tag-stockholm","19":"tag-sweden","20":"tag-translucent-architecture","21":"tag-wooden-architecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}