Z-Snap Pavilion – advanced fabrication and assembly of self-locking, bending active modules into a semi-double-layer, shell-like structure
| Author(s): |
Günther H. Filz
Ines Kumrić |
|---|---|
| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | Interfaces: Architecture, Engineering, Science, Annual Meeting of the International Association of Shell & Spatial Structures (IASS), Hamburg, 25-27 September 2017 |
| Published in: | Interfaces: Architecture . Engineering . Science |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Abstract: | The Z‐Snap Pavilion has been representing a central spatial installation at the exhibition “The Nature of Form: Properties of Imagination“ in the historical Fortress Franzensfeste in South Tyrol, Italy, 2016/17. With its realization, we document the research on a novel design method and geometrical setup, which activates a bending active behavior of the used material and consequently releases a snap action and self-locking mechanism as described by the authors [3,4]. Simultaneously, the pavilion can be seen as the merger of these investigations and the experience gained from previously fabricated pavilions like the single‐layer “Wooden D‐Form Structure” [5] and the double‐layer “Surface to Form Pavilion” [6]. The intelligence of the full-scale paper‐only structure “Z‐Snap Pavilion” lies in the advanced generation and simplified assembly of 1000 identical, prefabricated elements into a semi‐double‐layer, shell‐like structure. This paper describes the research and development of the pavilion from the geometrical setup of a single Z-snap element to the arrangement into modules, to their population on a doubly curved surface to its production, assembly and installation in full scale by 5 people within 5 days. |
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