Mobius – pareSITE: Environmental Summer Pavilion
The environmental summer pavilion was created from a studio course led at the Architectural Institute in Prague in collaboration with the Forestry and Wood Technology Faculty at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. Together with students from the mentioned schools, we designed and built a pavilion for the reSITE festival made of solid pine wood, which works with its material properties depending on the environment. It is a triangular structure in the shape of a Möbius strip made from torsion boards with thin sheets that provide shade and evaporate water in dry weather. Tangentially cut sheets respond to relative humidity by bending, allowing air circulation on hot summer days.
The pavilion was designed in Grasshopper for Rhino in combination with Rhino and manufactured on the CNC circular saw Hundegger Speed-Cut 3 and the three-axis CNC milling machine HOMAG Venture 06S.
Studio leaders: Marie Davidová - wood (Coll Coll), Matin Šichman - structure (Oximoron), Martin Gsandtner - coding
Students: Yuliya Pozynich, Jason Nam, Alena Repina, Daria Chertkova, Yana Vaselinko, Mikkel Wennesland, Dan Merta, Daniela Kleiman, Liv Storla, David Lukas, Christopher Hansen, William Glass, Jiří Šmejkal, Milan Podlena, Josef Svoboda, Tomáš Pavelka, Miroslav Runštuk, Ladislav Rubáš, Radim Sýkora, Anna Srpová, Ivana Kubicová, Gabriela Smolíková, Karel Ptáček, Jan Matiáš, Tomáš Mišoň, Lukáš Růžička, Jan Hyk, Marian Loubal.
The most famous examples of summer pavilions are from the AA School of Architecture in London and the Institute for Computational Design at the University of Stuttgart, but they are mostly made of plywood. Our research focused on the performance of the material properties of solid wood, specifically the strength of boards in torsion and the interaction of wood with moisture.
The winning concept by student Yuliya Pozynich was inspired by the geometry of the Möbius strip. This shape allowed us to experiment with the torsion of this anisotropic material, as the form cannot be divided with flat sheets.
The environmental summer pavilion is based on the concept of wooden oriental screens, known as 'mashrabiyya'. These absorb moisture at night when the relative humidity of the air is high, whereas during the day, they evaporate it and provide shade on summer days.
The pavilion was designed in Grasshopper for Rhino in combination with Rhino and manufactured on the CNC circular saw Hundegger Speed-Cut 3 and the three-axis CNC milling machine HOMAG Venture 06S.
Studio leaders: Marie Davidová - wood (Coll Coll), Matin Šichman - structure (Oximoron), Martin Gsandtner - coding
Students: Yuliya Pozynich, Jason Nam, Alena Repina, Daria Chertkova, Yana Vaselinko, Mikkel Wennesland, Dan Merta, Daniela Kleiman, Liv Storla, David Lukas, Christopher Hansen, William Glass, Jiří Šmejkal, Milan Podlena, Josef Svoboda, Tomáš Pavelka, Miroslav Runštuk, Ladislav Rubáš, Radim Sýkora, Anna Srpová, Ivana Kubicová, Gabriela Smolíková, Karel Ptáček, Jan Matiáš, Tomáš Mišoň, Lukáš Růžička, Jan Hyk, Marian Loubal.
The most famous examples of summer pavilions are from the AA School of Architecture in London and the Institute for Computational Design at the University of Stuttgart, but they are mostly made of plywood. Our research focused on the performance of the material properties of solid wood, specifically the strength of boards in torsion and the interaction of wood with moisture.
The winning concept by student Yuliya Pozynich was inspired by the geometry of the Möbius strip. This shape allowed us to experiment with the torsion of this anisotropic material, as the form cannot be divided with flat sheets.
The environmental summer pavilion is based on the concept of wooden oriental screens, known as 'mashrabiyya'. These absorb moisture at night when the relative humidity of the air is high, whereas during the day, they evaporate it and provide shade on summer days.
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