To understand the 2019 MPavilion is to know of the specific memory it is based on. Otherwise, it can be merely perceived as just a white tent- which is also fairly correct.

*‘Glenn Murcutt in conversation with Shelley Penn’; at the MSD.*

In his above conversation, Glenn recalls a moment during his travels at a remote airfield in the middle of the Mexican rainforest. Curious as to where he was to have lunch there, surrounded by the malaria-ridden forest, he was brought to underneath one of the wings of the airplane with a white cloth laid on the ground where his travel companion brought frozen mangos for lunch.

This exact moment - the serenity of the forest around the light space of shelter created by the wing - was his inspiration for the pavilion.

The pavilion nestles in the gardens quite modestly; from afar it doesn’t try to detract you away from its context. Underneath, the pavilion frames the surrounding gardens- welcoming those it shelters to just sit in the quiet serenity [perhaps with some frozen mangos].

The light materiality and tensioned cables gives the pavilion it’s resemblance to a tent or a temporary shelter - to which Glenn admits that he intended the pavilion to be; to adhere to the various dictionaries definitions of the word “pavilion”.