KSE PAVILIONS
Developed under wartime conditions, KSE Pavilions meets an immediate need for educational space: a setting that could be assembled quickly, used intensively over the summer of 2026, and dismantled afterwards, leaving the site as it was.
KSE Pavilions is temporary educational infrastructure on a golf course in Kyiv's Obolon district. The programme is distributed across a landscape of lightweight pavilions. Varying in height and proportion, the structures establish a dynamic field of enclosed rooms, circulation routes, and outdoor spaces. The campus is defined as much by the spaces between the pavilions as by their interiors: lawns, trees, paths, and distances become integral to its learning environment.
The pavilions are assembled from a metal scaffolding system and translucent polycarbonate cladding. The construction remains deliberately exposed, operating simultaneously as structure, envelope, technical support, and spatial framework. By day, the polycarbonate filters sunlight and softens the threshold between interior and landscape. At night, internal illumination transforms the translucent volumes into glowing markers across the open field.
The pavilions are placed directly on the ground, without foundations, among the existing lawns and trees, following the topography of the course. Moving from one class to the next becomes a walk through the landscape, and the spaces between the volumes work as informal outdoor rooms for breaks, conversations, and group work.
Two pavilion types form the core of the campus. Both share an octagonal plan: a perimeter band of scaffold bays encloses an open interior floor that is reorganised through furniture. The central pavilion is the largest gathering space, hosting lectures, fairs, and chess tournaments. Inside it stands a scaffold tower that supports lighting and equipment and also acts as a vertical marker, giving the campus a focal point visible across the open field. The multipurpose pavilion works at a smaller scale, shifting between lectures, coworking, and exhibitions. The architecture provides the frame; the use is set by how the room is furnished on a given day.
Readily available materials and a visible assembly logic establish adaptable settings for learning, gathering, and informal exchange. The pavilions can be taken apart and reassembled into new configurations: other pavilions, other sites, other programmes. The project treats temporary architecture as a precise, operational system.
For ФОРМА, the project continues the office's work on architecture under wartime conditions, where temporary infrastructure has to be fast, economical, and still carry spatial quality.
