‘’ “The starting point of our deliberations was one of the properties of plywood, the potential of which has not been exploited for structural purposes up until now,” Manuel Vollrath explains at a press conference. ’’
Research Pavilion is a project that was done last year 2010 by the students of Institute for Computational Design with the collaboration of Institute of Building Structures & Structural Design. These institutes designed and constructed a temporary Research Pavilion on the edge of the campus of the University of Stutthart. The Pavilions stands there as an unusual structure resembling a woven basket.
The structural lightweight construction is the new form for the structure of the Research Pavilion. This is a totally new advance to material savings in the support structure as a foundation. The ultra-thin plywood strips was given the bending stresses to the necessary rigidity. The architectural student on behalf of his design team determined the characteristics of the material by measurements made with experimental rigs which mean how much the plywood could be bent and the stresses it gives. Secondly, they wanted to find a geometry that would allow the potential of the material to be both function and design. A pair of segmental arches is the geometric basis of the structure. The tension and bending function is the connection which is divided into separate sections, where each tensile segment maintains the form of the adjoining bending segment. The external diameter of 10 metres is closed by forty of curved pairs (80 radial wood strips). Then to be fixed completely they included the vertical ribs in gravel-filled timber troughs. A distance of 3.5metres is the filigree structure which is nonetheless efficient and essentially stable.
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