Pavilion Chateau La Coste | Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

The Pavilion is a wooden structure that was built to permanently exhibit an installation themed on the environment that was presented at the Japan Festival held at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in 2008. The installation consists of four two-meter square glass cubes titled the “Four Cubes to Contemplate Our Environment” and is positioned at the center of a square defined by a set of walls. Visitors pass through a dim corridor along the building’s perimeter before encountering the four cubes that float within the darkness. The mechanical system of the building comprises only of the lighting; ventilation was designed to occur naturally by allowing air to enter from below the floor and to flow out from the center of the ceiling.