3. Japanese Temple Pavilion at Dorich House Museum
School of Architecture and Landscape, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Kingston University
30 May—3 June
11am—4pm
Dorich House Museum, 67 Kingston Vale, SW15 3RN

The architecture students from Studio 3.2 at Kingston University led by tutors Takeshi Hayatsu and Simon Jones will collaborate with the Faculty’s 3D Workshop and the Stanley Picker Gallery to install a wooden temple structure in the garden of Dorich House, Kingston Hill. Coinciding with an event called ‘History in Making’ at Dorich House in February 2015, this is the second occasion that the Studio will work with Stanley Picker Gallery to build temporary structures for local communities in the Kingston area.
The Studio has been building temporary wooden structures for the last three years with the Faculty’s 3D Workshops, as part of the on-going investigation into timber construction. All based upon historic timber structures from around the world, to date they have included, a footbridge from Kintaikyo, Iwakuni Japan, the spire formwork from Salisbury Cathedral, England, and the Woodland Cemetery Chapel, Stockholm Sweden. This year, the Studio will build an interpretation of the Temple Gate from Todaiji Nandaimon, Nara Japan.