Timfoil is the runner up entry to the 2009 AA Summer Pavilion.  It aims to investigate the idea of second nature and artifice in a contemporary context while focusing on digital fabrication in the production process.

"In our contemporary society, what can we claim to be entirely natural, without interference from man or the machine?  Similar to the idea of second nature,  what we consider to be natural was at one point foreign;  it becomes second nature with time or practice as it evolves to be an acquired trait that seems innate.  

This pavilion speaks precisly to the relationship between nature and artifice. The transformation from nature to artifice, not as a linear path but rather a continuous cycle.  Organized in a trefoil geometry, this continuous form represents the symbiotic relationship where the pavilion is the in between space of nature and its surrounding built environment."