pavillon mobil

(with Jan Knappe and Yasin Onur Bozyigit)

integrated project 3 (ip3)

ss24

A Pavillon designed to belong nowhere.

How can architecture become something that unfolds, adapts, and belongs wherever it appears? Pavillon Mobil is conceived as a modular, transportable structure designed to be assembled, disassembled, and reimagined over time. Originally developed for the university campus in Stuttgart, it was envisioned from the outset as a system that could be repeatedly set up and taken down, allowing it to adapt to entirely different contexts. Rather than remaining fixed, it exists in a constant state of transition—a structure that can be packed, moved, and rebuilt, belonging nowhere and yet fitting everywhere.

Movable panels allow the pavilion to shift between openness and enclosure, expanding into an extroverted, inviting space or contracting into an introverted, protected retreat. In this way, boundaries between inside and outside dissolve, creating a fluid relationship between structure and environment. Its adaptability enables it to respond to different uses, atmospheres, and surroundings, activating each place it inhabits. Movement becomes a central principle, not only in its physical transformation but also in how people engage with it—a living process of unfolding and closing, settling and shifting, always in dialogue with its context.