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Design students Min‐Chieh Chen, Dominik Zausinger and Michele Leidi of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have sent us some images of a pavilion made of cardboard hoops.
Called Packed, the digitally designed pavilion is made up of 409 cylinders of different diameters and thicknesses, connected together with ties to create a dome-shaped grid of circles.
The students used computer technology to implement the manufacture of the components of the pavilion and also its packing and shipping.
The aim of the project is to show how CAAD (Computer Aided Architectural Design) can be exploited, not only to create designs but also to optimise the entire design processes including production and logistics.
The pavilion was on show as part of the 3D paperArt exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts in November 2010, as part of the Shanghai Expo 2010.
