Carly Martin becomes first Border architect in Summer Place pavilion

AKIMBO Architecture's Carly Martin is the third architect to design for Albury City Council's Summer Place project, but the first one who is a resident of the city.

In 2019, an 'outdoor loungeroom' was installed in the square.

Ms Martin said she was excited to have been chosen for the project.

"It's always a dream to work in your home place," she said.

"And architectural pavilions are a dream of a lot of architects to design.

"So I'm super thrilled to be doing an architectural pavilion, but even more excited to be doing it local as well."

The Summer Place project aims to engage the community in new ways in public spaces and provide architects with the opportunity to experiment with urban design.

Ms Martin said it had given her the chance to be creative.

"When we work in architecture, we're looking at buildings which have longevity, whereas in this particular instance, we're looking at a building that's only going to be there a short period of time," she said.

"So we can really comment on a particular situation and if you imagine the context of QEII Square, we get the opportunity to build something that normally you would never get the chance to create."

Ms Martin said her design was a reflection of summer.

"Specifically for us, summer locally, so when I was creating this I thought 'what does it mean, summer in our region?'," she said.

"For me that was all about the river and my experience floating on the river, I'm sure many people would relate to that.

"Thinking about QEII and how it's so separated from the river, I wanted to bring a bit of that river landscape and river experience to the space."

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The pavilion will be made from recycled steel from the last structure, recycled bushfire timber from Corryong and will have vertical slabs of timber from Mudgegonga.

Albury City public art officer Danielle McMaster said it was "fantastic" Ms Martin had chosen local materials and builders.

She said public space allowed the artwork to reach a bigger audience.

"You can walk past it, maybe people don't even notice that they're walking past art, but maybe they do," she said.

"For me public art out in a public space, it can just capture peoples imaginations right then and there, as they're walking.

"The whole idea is to try to get people thinking about different forms of artwork, so architecture is a grand form."

The pavilion will be built in October, open in November and close next year in March.

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