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Interior view of bending-active pavilion structure
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Campus of the University Stuttgart with the Research Pavilion ICD/ITKE
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On site assembly of the planar strips
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Exterior elevation of the very thin pre-stressed plywood lamellas
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Overall view of the illuminated pavilion
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Elevation of the illuminated pavilion
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Script-based construction detailing for robotic fabrication including all relevant joints
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FEM simulation of the elastic bending strips and resultant force equilibrium of form
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion
ICD Institute for Computational Design and Construction (Prof. Achim Menges), Institute of Building Structures & Structural Design ITKE. Stuttgart, Germany
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Name of work in English
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion
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Name of work in original language
Forschungspavillon ICD/ITKE
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2011
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Work Location
Stuttgart, Germany
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Studio
ICD Institute for Computational Design and Construction (Prof. Achim Menges), Institute of Building Structures & Structural Design ITKE
EUmies Awards 2011 Shortlisted
Collaborators
Project management: Simon Schleicher, Moritz Fleischmann; Construction manager: Christopher Robeller; Structural engineering: Julian Lienhard, Diana D Souza; Coordination: Karola Dierichs; Design: Andreas Eisenhardt, Manuel Vollrath, Kristine W; Construction: Thomas Irowetz, Admir Mahmutovic, Leopold M, Michael Pelzer, Konrad Zerbe; Collaborator (external): OCHS GmbH, KUKA Roboter GmbH, Leitz GmbH, A. W, ESCAD Systemtechnik GmbH, Ministerium f; Construction: Oliver David Krieg, Peter Meschend
Program
Education
Completion
2010
Located on Stuttgart University's city centre campus, the Research Pavilion aimed to provide both a semiinterior extension of the University's central public square and a demonstration of the latest developments in materialoriented computational design, simulation, and production processes in architecture. The result is a novel bendingactive structure made entirely of extremely thin, elastically bent plywood lamellas that unfold a unique architectural space that at the same time is extremely efficient with the employed material resources. The pavilion demonstrates an alternative approach to architectural computational design: here, the computational generation of form and structure is directly driven by physical behaviour and material characteristics. The computational design process is based on physical experiments on the elastic bending behaviour of 6.5mmthin birch plywood strips, resulting in a structure that is 10 metres in diameter, with 500 geometrically unique parts, and a total construction weight of only 400 kg.