KVADRAT PAVILIONS
Invited by the textile company Kvadrat , with their head office located in the Danish town of Ebeltoft , Thomas demand designed an ensemble of pavilions ( 2020 ), which is currently being built . It is the first time that a building is actually constructed on the basis of Demand ’ s designs . The artistic concept for this project started from a visual notion that is both simple and metaphorical : the tent as a textile building . In collaboration with the British architectural firm Caruso St John , he developed this concept resulting in three pavilions , taking on the shape of , respectively , a folded sheet of paper , a paper plate and a paper hat . These three ordinary items all follow the logic of paper or cardboard – materials consistent with Demand ' s visual art practice .
As the Kvadrat pavilions are being built in Ebeltoft , this room ’ s exhibit documents the process of their design . The display case contains , among other things , sketches , paper models of the buildings and postcards of tents , a mode of architecture which Demand has been exploring in more detail for some time . There are also prototypes of details of the interior on display , such as door handles or light fittings , which he also designed from scratch . Finally , a plaster model serves to illustrate the location of the three pavilions , including the undulations of the nearby landscape .
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