The eventful space is designed to be visually appealing and eye-catching, with ‘necks’ and ‘beaks’ popping out from the casket and skin, also being highly visible from distance in the busy festival landscape. The role of Peter’s drawings is reconsidered and being experimented here – they become part of the architecture, along with the peek-holes, not only connecting the inside and the outside, but also merging the interactive experience with the playful architecture.

Quotes from architect Sir Peter Cook:

‘The Speakers and Judges Lounge for WAF Lisbon was designed to accommodate forty or more people sitting at tables. The team of Cong Ding, Pablo Wheldon, Ronghua Lei and Jenna de Leon working from Direction from Sir Peter Cook devised a quick construction ‘casket’ that displayed fragments of Cook’s drawn and built work. In particular, it took advantage of the ‘sandwich’ construction of the curved corners to facilitate a form of ‘peek-a-boo’ revelation of the pictorial material.’

A lot of the drawings being shown in the pavilion are part of a new Circa Press book ‘Speculations’ – consisting of Peter Cook’s drawings over a 50+ year period. Both projects have been supported by ABB – the leading digital technology company for electrification and automation.