Feb '13 - Jul '13
Photo Courtesy: Zuzana Vajdova View full entry
June 21, the Möbius pavilion was finally opening to the public. I got off the tram at Karlovo Náměstí and found this very elegant sign directing me to the pavilion. And there it was - Möbius. My heart started beating faster with excitement as I approached... View full entry
Möbius has landed on the Karlovo Náměstí park! Photographs taken by Monika Wagnerova. View full entry
The wooden sheets of "pedals" have been attached - making Möbius 90% complete! Check out more photos after the jump. Martin Gsandtner, Martin Šichman, and Marie Davidová are pleased with the results :) View full entry
Möbius is coming to life! The module pieces have been fabricated and we built the pavilion outside of the FLD campus to make sure everything was ok. View full entry
Möbius is almost ready for its big debut at the reSITE Festival! Students at FLD are putting together the final pieces together Manča working on final calculations We're super excited to see Möbius in its full glory View full entry
Due to the recent floods in Prague, the MÖBIUS pavilion for REsite will be relocated to Karlovo Náměstí. See you all there on June 20! View full entry
Students at FLD have been busy assembling the wooden modules for the Möbius. Manča seemed quite satisfied with the progress :) The warehouse is full of the triangular modules, waiting to be pieced together. View full entry
Exact calculations for the wooden modules are modeled in Rhino And voila! View full entry
MÖBIUS: PARESITE PAVILION Environmental Summer Pavilion for reSITE Led by Marie Davidová, Martin Gsandtner, Martin Šichman Abstract: The Paresite – The Environmental Pavilion is a mobius shaped triangular structure built from torqued pine wood planks with half... View full entry
The students at FLD have made prototypes of the wooden triangular modules for Möbius View full entry
Meet Möbius: the pareSITE. Last year, reSITE's inflatable pavilion was called Rosy the Ballerina. We liked calling our pavilion as if it were a person (after all, we spend more time with it than our real friends), so we decided to continue this theme for this year. Our... View full entry
Using the triangular module system, Team A wanted the form to be based off of a Mobius strip: a surface with only one side and only one boundary components. View full entry
Team B (aka "Predators") Groupie pic #2. Yay. View full entry
Team A (aka "Cold Pop") decided to make a partial 1:1 scale model to study the joint system and get an overall feel of what this pavilion will look like. Martin, the wood pro, made a 1:1 scale of the triangle module with pinewood -- the actual material we will be using for the pavilion. We... View full entry
The second year students at ARCHIP split into two groups to further the design and make it actually buildable. Team A was working on Yuliya's design and Team B worked with Dessy's design. Both teams chose names: Team A is "Cold Pop" and Team B is "Predators." (But because I think they sound... View full entry
With Yuliya's pavilion design chosen as the winner, the next step was to develop it into an actual, buildable structure. Agreeing that a triangular paneling would be the best, we got together to explore different types of methods to use the triangular panels. View full entry
Although these proposals have not placed in the competition, each student's design had something interesting to show. View the full entry to see more photos of the students' design proposals. Yana Vasilenko (RUS) Mikkel Wennesland (NOR) David Lukas (CZE) Anna Srpova (CZE) Jason Nam (KOR) Josef... View full entry
The students at ARCHIP had 2 weeks to come up with design proposal for the reSITE Festival's pavilion and presented their designs to the jury - Marie Davidová, Osamu Okamura, Martin Gsandtner, Martin Šichman, and Martin Barry (we had a lot of 'Martin's). It was interesting to... View full entry
Here is a quick recap of what has been going on with the environmental pavilion: 1. Workshops, workshops, workshops In the course of 2 weeks, we had workshops after workshops researching types of pavilions, wood materials and their reaction to environment, fabrication techniques, and parametric... View full entry
In case you haven't noticed from the obvious title of the blog, we are designing and building an environmental pavilion in Prague. The project is led in cooperation of the Architectural Institute Prague (ARCHIP) and the University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences... View full entry
Blogging the process of designing and building the pavilion for the 2013 Prague ReSITE Festival. Lead by Marie Davidová with Martin Gsandtner, Martin Šichman and Lukáš Kurilla at ARCHIP and FLD - CZU. http://resite.cz http://archip.eu http://www.fld.czu.cz/en