The King Pavilion was designed and built to honor the life and commitment of a client. It was designed to be a retreat for work, play, music, meditation, and rest. The octagonal room is as tall as it is wide, with 14-foot tall windows surrounding the main space. A vestibule provides a place to remove wet clothing and shoes and can be closed off with a pair of wood doors.
The location of the pavilion and the height of the windows allow one to look out and down the hillside or out and up into the tree canopy surrounding the building. A bench rings the room. It is modular in places, allowing sections to be combined for sleeping. A hatch in the floor opens to storage and utility space below. And the chandelier can be raised and lowered to work with over a folding table and chairs or up for full-height standing in the room.
The path to the pavilion is a careful choreography of paths, ramps, and stairs that separate the user from the main building while orchestrating views of the local and extended landscape and of the water beyond.
