Flashback: Posbank Pavilion / de architectegroep, rijnboutt ruijssenaars hendriks van gamerenmastenbroek bv

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Text description provided by the architects. The aim was to make this tea house a model of energy efficiency and at the same time completely transparent to the surrounding natural environment. The pavilion lies at the end of a range of hills formed in the last ice age, when the earth was pushed more than 100 metres above see level (quite an achievement by Dutch standards). From the entrance the floor rises in a continuous spiral that wraps itself around a group of trees and cantilevers over 14 metres. The construction, enabling this cantilever, is made out of steel for tension forces and out of unprocessed solid oak for pressure forces. At the most pivotal point a big moraine supports the construction.