MYRA PAVILION
STREET-SIDE PATISSERIE & COFFEE PAVILION, JEDDAH
Myra is a street-side pastry and coffee pavilion – part café, part roadside pick-up point – designed to sit between architecture and sculpture. Jeddah’s cityscape is intensely horizontal, defined by multi-lane highways and scattered developments in process. Reference points range from Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s photographs of abandoned Hijaz Railway stations to the notion of roadside typologies as a form of land-bound sculpture.
A stone’s throw from the future Jeddah Tower, the pavilion embraces deliberate smallness. A translucent polycarbonate facade wraps a simple box volume, cut through by a stainless-steel service window that opens to both sides, shading the interior from desert heat. One corner is swagged open into a super-slim canopy: bent polycarbonate panels read like stylised fabric, held by a goalpost frame that quietly stages the desert beyond.
Photography by Tutto Bene