LEGO - Pavilion Design

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Solar Bytes Pavil ion

Si lk Pavil ion

latvia Pavil ion

HygroSkin

Contemplay Pavilion

Triumph Pavil ion

Unfolding Senses

HIlA Pavil ion

Serpentine gallery

ICD ITKe Pavil ion 2011

Corrugated Cardboard

ICD ITKe Pavil ion 2013-14

lecturer, Ahmed M. Al.badawy

Tuesday 10th, Febraury 2015

Light temporary or semipermanent structure used in gardens and pleasure grounds. Although there are many variations, the basic type is a large, l ight, airy garden room with a high-peaked roof resembling a canopy. It was originally erected, l ike the modern canvas marquee, for special occasions such as fetes, garden banquets, and balls, but it became more permanent, and by the late 17th century the word was used for any garden building designed for use on special occas ions .

L E G O - Pavi l ion Design

Contemplay PavilionHybrid l ightweight space

Directed Research Studio (DRS)Alison Furuto

The pavilion’s hybrid lightweight space frame is formed by laminated plywood ribs and steel tubes clad with sinuous plywood strips.

2012, Montreal

The project presented a unique op-portunity for the students to learn through hands-on experience in an academic context. The pavilion oc-cupies an 8.8m x 6.7m footprint with a total height of 3.7m. The structure itself is comprised of 140 planar ply-wood ribs joined together with an-other 140 sheet metal node assem-

blies which are triangulated into a space frame by 266 metal tubes. The entire structure is clad with 302 moiré strips fixed to the ribs by 1208 trapezoidal plywood joints. In total, there are 2056 discrete assemblies that comprise the pavilion and more than 3000 individually unique pieces of plywood, sheet metal and tubing.

The complexity of the pavilion’s ge-ometry creates a unique opportunity to undertake research through para-metric modeling and digital fabrica-tion. Parametric modeling consists of establishing a set of dynamic ge-ometrical relationships to ultimately produce an entity with fixed dimen-sions. Its main advantage lies in rap-id and flexible design exploration: designers can develop virtual proto-types, and simultaneously test the im-plications of changes on each of the multidisciplinary constraints shaping the project.

Contemplay Pavilion

https://vimeo.com/73180121

HygroSkin,Meteorosensitive Pavilion

A climate-responsive kinetic sculpture

Institute for Computational Design (ICD)Achim Menges in collaboration with oliver David Krieg and Steffen Reichert

The project HygroSkin – Meteorosen-sitive Pavilion explores a novel mode of climate-responsive architecture.

2013, orleans

The project explores a novel mode of climate-responsive architecture through material-oriented design computation and digital fabrication. It employs the swelling and shrink-ing of wood in relation to moisture content to construct a metereosen-

sitive architectural skin that autono-mously opens and closes in response to weather changes but neither re-quires the supply of operational en-ergy nor any kind of mechanical or electronic control. The material struc-ture itself is the machine.

The project explores the tension be-tween an archetypical architectural volume, the box, and a deep, undu-lating skin imbedding clusters of intri-cate, climate responsive apertures. The pavilion’s envelope, which is at the same time load-bearing struc-ture and metereosensitive skin, is computationally derived from the elastic bending behaviour of thin ply-wood sheets. The material’s inherent capacity to form conical surfaces is employed in combination with 7-axis robotic manufacturing processes to construct 28 geometrically unique components housing 1100 humidity responsive apertures.

HygroSkin, Meteorosensitive Pavilion


Tr iumph Pavil ionTemporary Parametric Inflated Structure

Atelier Zündel Cristea

The inflatable structure of this tem-porary exhibition piece provides an ideal contemporary space, while of-fering a sense of tranquility, beauty and aesthetic value, as a center-piece of the Museum gardens in london.

2013, london

The structure of the pavilion is perfect-ly symmetrical; the form is obtained by precise geometrical manipulation. The very beauty and smoothness of the shape lies in its perfect fluidity and sym-metry and the pavilion is open to eve-ryone. The fluid geometry of this tem-porary structure blurs the transition from

inside to outside, so the act of moving through the space is blurry and deceiv-ing. The structure is self-supporting, with 4 meters in height and 20 sqm in area, and it is designed entirely in lightweight materials – 77.96m² of PVC membrane and 20m3 of air.

In order to achieve this particular shape, the architects used advanced tools of parametric design, for the study of ten-sile membranes and in the geometric conception of double curved surfaces. The pavilion was digitally fabricated, so the CNC cutting machines were used for the accurate execution.

Triumph Pavilion

Solar Bytes Pavil ionReacts to Solar exposure

Design Lab WorkshopBrian Peters and Daphne Firos

Where buildings are fabricated using new techniques (3D printing), incor-porate smart technologies (light sen-sors, photovoltaics), and are pow-ered by renewable energy sources (solar power).

2014, ohio

The pavilion is constructed out of 94 unique modules or ‘bytes’ (digitally designed and fabricated building blocks) that each have an integrat-ed solar powered leD. the units were shaped with translucent plastic, al-lowing the structure to filter sunlight

during the day and create a uni-form glow at night. the effect is en-hanced by the use of interlocking, snap-fit joints that reduce the visual division between each module and allow the arch to be self-supporting.

The overall form of the Solar Bytes Pavilion follows the path of the sun, spanning from east to west to maxi-mize solar exposure. each solar cell acts independently, capturing and storing energy, as well as sensing light levels, for each individual leD. This creates a recording of the sun’s exposure over the course of the day that is then reflected at night as the leDs light up.

Solar Bytes Pavilion


Silk PavillionCNC Deposited Si lk Fiber & Si lkworm Construction

MIT Media LabProf. Neri oxman, Markus Kayser, Jared laucks, Carlos David gonzalez Uribe, Jorge Duro-Royo

The Silk Pavilion explores the relation-ship between digital and biological fabrication on product and archi-tectural scales.

2013, Massachusetts

The primary structure was created of 26 polygonal panels made of silk threads laid down by a CNC (Com-puter-Numerically Controlled) ma-chine. Inspired by the silkworm’s abil-ity to generate a 3D cocoon out of a single multi-property silk thread (1km in length), the overall geometry of

the pavilion was created using an al-gorithm that assigns a single continu-ous thread across patches providing various degrees of density. overall density variation was informed by the silkworm itself deployed as a bi-ological printer in the creation of a secondary structure.

Affected by spatial and environ-mental conditions including geo-metrical density as well as variation in natural light and heat, the silkworms were found to migrate to darker and denser areas. Desired light effects in-formed variations in material organi-zation across the surface area of the structure.

Silk Pavilion


latvia Pavil ion expo 2010Kinetic facade

Mailitis A.I.I.M

The philosophy and message impart-ed through the latvian pavilion is The road to happiness leads through harmony between nature and tech-nology.

2010, Shanghai

The facade of the latvian pavilion will be composed of 100,000 col-ourful, transparent, 15*15 cm plas-tic plates, which sparkle and sway in the wind, generating a dynamic, ki-netic effect. The facade will symbol-ize nature and its various facets – the forests, the sea, the land, the sky, the

wind. The entry stairway of the pavil-ion will lead upward in a spiral, sym-bolizing the continued, progressive development of humanity. At the top of the stairway, on the third floor of the exhibition hall, visitors will be-hold a glass wind tunnel, filled with flying people!

The latvian pavilion will be located by the central square of the Shang-hai eXPo exhibit, site occupies 1000 m² of land.

latvia Pavilion expo 2010


HIlA Pavil ionA synthesis of a three dimensional

wooden lattice structure

Digiwoodlab ProjectUniversity of oulu Students

The workshop was held in collabo-ration with the oulu University’s Digi-Woodlab project, which aims to develop and research methods for designing wooden structures and architecture using algorithm aided design methods and computerized manufacture in collaboration with Finnish wood industry.

2014, oulu

HIlA pavilion is a synthesis of a three dimensional wooden lattice struc-ture (hila in Finnish) and architecture, in which the rectangular base form is carved by a freeform inner void. The revealed wooden structure creates a lace-like appearance inside the

pavilion, which is amplified by the complex shadows it forms. Viewed from inside, the openings on the sides of the pavilion frame beautiful views towards the river delta area, and the pavilion itself is shown as a prominent landmark towards the city.

The wooden lattice is connected by simple crosslap joints. The tight slots in joining members together with the bolt connection brace the structure so no additional diagonal bracing is needed. HIlA pavilion consists of 397 prefabricated wooden beams and 1027 joints.

HIlA Pavilion


Unfolding Senses IAAC Pavil ionIAAC - Institute for Advanced Architec-ture of CataloniaMAA01 12-13 - Program Director: Areti Marko-poulou / experimental Structure Seminar - Tutors: Silvia Brandi, Josep Miàs / Students: Ibrahim Ber-kay, Zeynep Birgönül, Harsh Boghani, elif gungor, Marjan Jelveh, Kismir Selcuk, Anand Singh, Ange-liki Terezaki.

A space inside a space. Intimacy. Ar-chitecture considered as something that is alive and interactive, closer to a person’s everyday life.

2010, Montpell ier

The construction is made out of wood-en beams and fabric. The fabric is light and removable, it touches the floor on four points. The 72m2 textile membrane is a special fabric for fa-cades (Stamisol FT Serge Ferrari. The 35 wooden beams provide stiffness only at points where the structure re-quires support compression. ToMo

can sense your touch on many dif-ferent materials and create sounds to tell people things.The technology implemented into the structure itself is based on a custom board called ToMo developed in the Fab lab Bar-celona. ToMo is a touch Synthesizer board based on Arduino.

The initial pavilion developed in the experimental Structures seminar has been hacked with conductive paint and two ToMo boards, and imple-mented with balloon speakers to create an intimate and vivid space, finally unfolding senses.

Unfolding Senses IAAC Pavilion


ICD ITKe Research Pavil ion 2011Morphology Transfer

The Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Struc-tures and Structural Design (ITKE) of the University of StuttgartProf. Achim Menges, Prof. Jan Knippers, Compe-tence, oliver David Krieg and Boyan Mihaylov.

The project explores the architectur-al transfer of biological principles of the sea urchin’s plate skeleton mor-phology by means of novel com-puter-based design and simulation methods.

2011, Stuttgart

Following the analysis of the sand dol-lar, the morphology of its plate struc-ture was integrated in the design of a pavilion. Three plate edges always meet together at just one point, a prin-ciple which enables the transmission of normal and shear forces but no bend-ing moments between the joints, thus resulting in a bending bearing but yet deformable structure. Unlike tradition-

al lightweight construction, which can only be applied to load optimized shapes, this new design principle can be applied to a wide range of custom geometry. The high lightweight poten-tial of this approach is evident as the pavilion that could be built out of 6.5 mm thin sheets of plywood only, de-spite its considerable size. Therefore it even needed anchoring to the ground to resist wind suction loads.

The research pavilion offered the opportunity to investigate methods of modular bionic construction us-ing freeform surfaces representing different geometric characteristics while developing two distinct spa-tial entities: one large interior space with a porous inner layer and a big opening, facing the public square between the University’s buildings, and a smaller interstitial space envel-oped between the two layers that exhibits the constructive logic of the double layer shell.

ICD ITKe Research Pavilion 2011


Corrugated Cardboard PavilionA battle is raging even though you don´t know.

Miguel Arraiz garcía and David Moreno Terrón

This corrugated cardboard pavil-ion was built for a traditional festival called “Fallas” held in Valencia every March. The construction was made out with 3,000 purposefully made corrugated hexagonal boxes as the only structural material.

2013, Valencia

garcía and Terrón created a grotto, assembled from some 3,000 corru-gated cardboard tubes that were arranged into stalagmite and sta-lactite-like constellations. Devised as a contemplative space to escape the noise and fireworks that mark las Fallas. The tubes were painted with a

water-resistant coating that stained the cardboard various shades of ter-racotta. Built off-site in groups of 40, the tubes were then assembled in Valencia’s city centre over a period of 48 hours. The use of cardboard, Ar-raiz says, was intended to reference the origins of las Fallas.

The pavilion burned to the ground for about 15 minutes. The monument was around five or six metres high and the fire reached 22 metres high; It reached the seventh floor of the building next door. We took pride in using a material that burns well. We wanted to recover a proper way of burning.

Corrugated Cardboard Pavilion


Serpentine gallery Pavil ionCloud-like

Sou Fujimoto

A cloud-like cluster of white steel rods will shimmer above the trees in Kens-ington gardens.

2013, london

The design is for a delicate lattice structure of 20mm-thick steel poles, which will form an irregular, shape-shifting mass in front of the gallery, a misty wire-frame blur that will dis-solve into the park.“Within the pastoral context of Kens-ington gardens, I envisage the vivid

greenery of the surrounding plant life woven together with a constructed geometry,” says Fujimoto. He de-scribes the project as “an architec-tural landscape: a transparent terrain that encourages people to interact with and explore the site in diverse ways.”

Many architects like to think their buildings dissolve and “dematerial-ise” into their surroundings. They talk in earnest about “fluid space” and the continuity of inside and out – the simple use of a window or door en-dowed with the rhetoric of free flow. But Fujimoto actually does it.

Serpentine gallery Pavilion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD4S1jFf_Pw

ICD ITKe Research Pavil ion 2013-14Biomimetic Investigation

The Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Struc-tures and Structural Design (ITKE) of the University of StuttgartProf. Achim Menges, Prof. Jan Knippers, Moritz Dörstelmann, Vassilios Kirtzakis, Stefana Parascho, Marshall Prado, Tobias Schwinn and leyla Yunis.

The focus of the project is a paral-lel bottom-up design strategy for the biomimetic investigation of natural fiber composite shells and the devel-opment of novel robotic fabrication methods for fiber reinforced polymer structures.

2013, Stuttgart

This investigation of natural light-weight structures was conducted in an interdisciplinary cooperation of architects and engineers from Stutt-gart University and biologists. During the investigation, the elytron, a pro-tective shell for beetles’ wings and abdomen, has proved to be a suit-able role model for highly material efficient construction. The perfor-

mance of these lightweight structures relies on the geometric morphology of a double layered system and the mechanical properties of the natu-ral fiber composite. The anisotropic characteristic of this material, which consists of chitin fibers embedded in a protein matrix, allows for locally dif-ferentiated material properties.

The overall geometry reacts to site-specific conditions of the public space around the university building in close proximity to the park. At the same time it demonstrates the mor-phologic adaptability of the system, by generating more complex spa-tial arrangements than a simple shell structure. Altogether the research pa-vilion shows how the computational synthesis of biological structural prin-ciples and the complex reciprocities between material, form and robotic fabrication can lead to the gener-ation of innovative fiber composite construction methods.

ICD ITKe Research Pavilion 2013-14


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