AP with Aude Franjou: Dining Pavilion, Malta
- Published: 16 January 2008 19:57
- Author: Ruth Slavid.
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AP with Aude Franjou: Dining Pavilion, Malta
"Made from hemp and flax, the vegetal surface of the screen belongs as much to the garden as to the kitchen"
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Attaching an elegant dining pavilion to a heavily built house is an intelligent but scarcely original move. What makes this project special is the approach to shading, so necessary in the hot sun of Malta. A colonnade of steel columns supports a fabric awning, but the pièce de résistance
is the concertina-like glass screen to the south and east facades, decorated with 'trees' made by French artist Aude Franjou from flax twisted around hemp, then woven on to a steel framework. Varying the tension of the weaving introduces the desired curvature.
