The Dupatta; A piece of fabric that wraps around the human body flaunting its intricate creases, folds and shadows as light surrenders to its hue and gently shimmers through it. The pavilion is created as a manifestation of this activity, and a celebration of the intimacy that everyone in Pakistan holds with fabric.

The form emerged from a series of performance art conducted in and out of the context. This studied interaction with wind rationalized our concept: suspend a piece of fabric into the air above the lake and let it find its way. It would float, and not sink, a presence dictated by aerodynamics, and one that would manifest into our glass and steel shell. What we could not ignore was the complexity of color, and its defining personality in a context like ours; how it would reflect the ceiling of the sky, and please the green moss with its identity. A color palette we incorporated into our exterior facade. We let it drape and claim the glass as freely as it pleases and let it mingle and intertwine with colors that would allow the warm sun into the interior.

The interior is a multi-sensory series of installations that you experience as you float on the glass floor. You feel the delicacy of the chiffon, and net, the chunnatain of the crinkled green and yellow on your skin as you transition into the central space, where cascading draperies of blues, tangerines, and purples form your ceiling. This frames your view of the interactive back elevation, where threads weave through the steel frame and invite you to leave your mark, a price of fabric, katran, in a knot, memorializing the rich diversity of our student body. There will be reds, greens, blues, ajraks and doch, karhayi and jute, a representation of the 34 ethnicities prevailing in our university. As you exit the pavilion, the reflection of the colorful composition of drapery on the retreat back to land is yet another opportunity for introspection into the presence of fabric that surrounds us every day, yet goes neglected. The floating deck carries you back, as it carries you into space, a circulation into land continued with a formalized pathway, enveloped with dandelions, in a curated context of Amaltas, Jacaranda and Weeping Willows.