Expandable Surface Pavilion
EXPANDABLE SURFACE PAVILION
Pablo Esteban Zamorano, Nacho Martí And Jacob Bek
ARCHITECTS
Pablo Esteban Zamorano, Nacho Martí and Jacob Bek
LOCATION
Germany
PROJECT YEAR
2011
AREA
16.0 m²
CATEGORY
Pavilion
Text description provided by architect.
This design manifested into a small meeting room-pavilion that explores complex geometries generated from plywood sheets.
The project was created for the recent SPOGA furniture design exhibition in Cologne, Germany and is part of an ongoing research into Expandable Surface Systems, which began in collaboration with the Emergent Technologies and Design Programme at the Architectural Association. The project was designed, fabricated and mounted by the designers.
Through a novel fabrication process, we developed a method to achieve zero waste of material and dispense the need for additional formwork.
Along with this material process, a parametric computational tool was created to find the required cutting pattern to achieve a specific geometry. Both modes of fabrication and computation were based on material properties to ensure the system's structural and construction feasibility.
