Tonic-Design Frames a Sculpture Park: AIA Small Project Award Recipient 2010

Tonic Design, a Raleigh, North Carolina based firm, defines a moment in the landscape of a museum's sculpture park. The pavillion, which is situated in an idlyllic setting, not only creates a comfortable space for people congregate, ideas to be exhanged, and visitors to enjoy of bit communal reflection but is also framing the landscape beyond simultaneously re-imaging the surrounding environment. Is it an object within the landscape or a tool for pictorializing nature?  Either way, the well situated, perferated metal enclosure displays the designers' skill in the economy of means while living symbiotically with the park and the sculptures.

Below is the press release.

The AIA Small Project Awards Program, now in its sixth year, was established to recognize small-project practitioners for the high quality of their work and to promote excellence in small-project design. This award program emphasizes the excellence of small-project design and strives to raise public awareness of the value and design excellence that architects bring to projects, no matter the limits of size and scope.

Art as Shelter; Raleigh, North Carolina
Tonic Design

Designed and built as an integral component of the North Carolina Museum of Art Park’s ‘art-in-service’ projects program, ‘Art as Shelter’ offers visitors a sheltered place to sit and reflect upon the museum sculpture park and public greenway. Viewed as an object in the landscape or experienced from within, the pavilion offers magnificent veiled panoramic views of the surrounding landscape.