This
interdisciplinary project is the team work of students from the
Faculty of Art and Architecture at the TUL in Liberec and the Faculty of
Forestry and Wood Sciences at the CZU in Prague, under the leadership of Marie
Davidová (FA CTU in Prague / Collaborative Collective), Šimon Prokop (Collaborative
Collective)
and Martin Kloda (Archwerk). It is the continuation of the project pareSITE, the Environmental Summer Pavilion published here a year ago. Its goal is to
evolve the performance of solid pine wood. The PareSITE project was absorbing humidity during the night while evaporating it during hot summer days. The
panelling supported this by warping – increasing the humid
air circulation. This year's project took the concept further. The panelling was
organised spatially. Left and right sides of the panels in tangential section
were combined. Thanks to this, as well as the shape of the structure, the
pavilion performed much better.
The
concept evolved from origami folded ellipse that was 3D scanned and used as a
base for a Grasshopper for Rhino 5 model that generated fabrication drawings. The
individual pieces for the structure were cut on a Hundegger Speed-Cut 3 CNC saw at Eurodach and the
panelling on HOMAG Venture 06S 3-axis milling machine at the Faculty of Forestry and
Wood Sciences at CZU in Prague, where the structure was also mounted by the
students.
The
Loop Pavilion served as a meeting point and podium for the EnviroCity festival, creating a pleasant environment for its visitors and presenters.
Grasshopper for Rhino 5 model:
The model was created solely in Grasshopper (and its
plug-ins) using only two guiding curves in Rhinoceros 5 taken from the 3D
scanner. This helped the team to work on the structure even before the
final shape of guiding curves was determined. Due to the spatial organization of panels
and the nature of pavilion's construction there was a fair amount of data
structure to work with besides the geometry. All the elements were simple
planar planks, however, the overall shape is perceived as a double curved
surface.
Since the shape was complicated in
the terms of statics, the team used a plug-in called Donkey
to analyse possible weak spots in the construction. Simultaneously, the joints were analysed in different force constellations to find the optimal positioning of fasteners. Another
Grasshopper plug-in, Ladybug, was used to
estimate the sun's position and energy gain on each panel on the actual site
during the installation period so that the panel size could become
another layer of complexity.
All participating students learned Grasshopper basics.
List of participating students:
Alena Novotná, Anna Hrušová, Antonín Hůla, Barbora Slavíčková, Jakub
Kopecký, Jiří Fáber, Jiří Pokorný, Petr Tůma, Tereza Jílková, Radim Sýkora,
Eliška Antonyová, Tereza Lišková, Filip Janata, Tomáš Kytka, Marie Kortanová,
Vojtěch Holeček, Martin Vaníček, Jakub Hlaváček and Petr Havelka
Sponsors:
Stora Enso, Rothoblaas, Nářadí Bartoš, Eurodach, Lesy ČR, Nadace Proměny, Natura Decor
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