A magical pavilion in Copenhagen.

Dutch firm, FABRIC designed a pavilion in Copenhagen that references a zoetrope, a 19th century optical device that gives the impression of motion in still images and drawings. The structure is a harmonious arrangement of architecture, urban planning and landscape design.



Dutch design firm, FABRIC won the international design competition for a contemporary structure to be installed in the Renaissance garden of Rosenborg castle, Copenhagen. The designers came up with an elaborate, and at the same time simple, wooden fence to create a “magical” pavilion.





The project’s title, “Trylletromler”, is the Danish word for zoetrope, and like its namesake, this new structure also plays with optical illusions.





The patterns made by the gaps in the pavilion “walls”, which mark a pathway around the garden, blur the concept of indoors and outdoors. The openings in the “fence”, made from three thousand untreated pieces of wood, create the visual perception of something in perpetual motion





The 308 metre long structure is built from prefabricated sections that can be reused when it is removed.

Project: FABRIC, http://www.fabrications.nl
design directors: Eric Frijters, Olv Klijn; project team: Greta Mozzachiodi, Guillermo Lavernia, Charlotte Simpson and Ida Fløche Moller
team Architektforeningen
Ali Arvanaghi, Dorte Sibast
construction team
MOELVEN Denmark A/S, Copenhagen Technical College
Location: Copenhagen, DK
Year: 2013
Photography: © Walter Herfst - courtesy of FABRIC