DRL10 Pavilion

The DRL10 Pavilion is the winning entry in the ‘AADRLTen’ Pavilion competition held in 2007. It is an advanced technology concrete structure that was erected in Bedford Square, London in front of the Architectural Association School of Architecture and opened to the public on 13 March 2008 as part of the AADRL10 Exhibition and Publication celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Archiectural Association's acclaimed Design Research Laboratory. The structure was designed and developed by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang with Adams Kara Taylor and members of the AADRL. The pavilion is formed by a discontinuous shell structure spanning over 10m made of thin fibre reinforced concrete elements which perform as structure and skin, floor walls...