With good friends Matthew Jones and Alistair Wood, I entered the Leicestershire and Rutland Society of Architects' annual compettion at the Leicester School of Architecture. The brief was to design a mobile pavilion in which to exhibt an aspect of the Richard III find in Leicester city centre with 24 hours.

 

The Death and Bones of Richard III

 

The proposal focuses primarily on the death and recovered bones of King Richard III, the Battle of Bosworth (1485) and his armour. The pavilion explores the wounds and injuries inflicted on Richard III, as the last king to die on the battlefield.

 

The pavilion has been designed around the concept of exploring the recovered bones of the king and his battle armour. Individual bones are viewed from separate platforms with each offering an insight into the research involved in his recovery and the damage received during the battle.

 

Visitors are lifted to suspended timber structures above the public space, leaving the area below undisturbed. The mechanised system transports the bones up from a central focal point, which in the evening exhibits the complete set.

 

The entire project has been designed with transportation in mind. The pavilion collapses into individual components, ready to be flat packed and loaded onto trucks for transportation across the world. The self supporting system allows the pavilion to be assembled in almost any environment, rural or urban.