May 2021 - Situated in the garden of Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, the Ball-Nogues-designed Healing Pavilion provides shade and seating for visitors. Its most important function is creating a place that momentarily transports the visitor’s mind away from illness. The intricate patterns formed by the tubes and the shadows cast on the ground are meant to captivate one’s imagination.

This is a place suitable for sitting alone or sharing a moment with another. The pavilion is fabricated from 2,793 linear feet of 2-inch-diameter steel tubes bent using a CNC rolling system. Each of the 352 individual tubes are unique. Together, they form a structural shell that has no hierarchy in a traditional sense.
Photos: Ball-Nogues Studio