Archinect - MÖBIUS: the pareSITE Pavilion

Visual Art Projection on Möbius

2013-07-21T10:41:39-04:00

Visual art projection by Lunchmeat
Time-lapse by Tomas and Josef Svoboda

Events on Möbius

2013-07-04T07:18:55-04:00

Photo Courtesy: Zuzana Vajdova

MÖBIUS Opening Day - Journal

2013-07-04T07:02:48-04:00

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 the pavilion.

I have to admit, the pavilion felt a lot smaller than it looked on the computer screen. Nonetheless, it was still a beautiful piece of work. Yuliya (the original designer of the pavilion) and I were super proud to see it in front of our eyes.

Yay ARCHIP.

There was a quick discussion about the pavilion (mostly in Slovakian so I don't know what they exactly said), and Yuliya was called up to share about her inspiration for the design. Awkward? Yes. Proud? Yes.

The event wrapped up with a special light show on the pavilion. Though skeptical at first, the show turned out to be an awesome performance. It was a good time to reflect about the past few months of seeing Möbius come to life.

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MÖBIUS Opening Day

2013-07-04T06:14:51-04:00

Möbius has landed on the Karlovo Náměstí park! Photographs taken by Monika Wagnerova.

MÖBIUS is complete!

2013-07-04T06:10:00-04:00

After months of hard work, Möbius has finally been completed. Check out the official photographs taken by Rostislav Zapletal.

MÖBIUS Construction Update #6

2013-06-15T11:53:15-04:00

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 :)

MÖBIUS Construction Update #6

2013-06-13T08:15:44-04:00

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.

MÖBIUS Construction Update #5

2013-06-12T08:00:44-04:00

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

New Location for MÖBIUS

2013-06-09T08:47:37-04:00

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!

MÖBIUS Construction Update #4

2013-06-09T08:33:56-04:00

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.

MÖBIUS Construction Update #3

2013-06-09T08:21:39-04:00

Exact calculations for the wooden modules are modeled in Rhino

And voila!

MÖBIUS: the pareSITE Pavilion

2013-06-03T11:24:00-04:00

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 centimetre thin pine wood triangular sheets that provide shadow and evaporate moisture in dry weather. The sheets, cut in the tangential section, interact with the humidity by warping themselves, allowing air circulation for the evaporation in arid conditions.

The design was accomplished in Grasshopper for Rhino in combination with Rhino and fabricated on Hundegger Speed-Cut 3 and HOMAG Venture 06S 3-axis milling machine. Few pieces had to be produced in hand as the machine doesn't accept such shallow angles.

The project was held in cooperation of the Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP) and the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (FLD CZU) and the reSITE...

MÖBIUS Construction Update #2

2013-06-02T15:56:55-04:00

It's been a while since the blog has been updated, but the production team has been busy making the wood pieces at the workshops. Here's a quick update on our environmental pavilion, MÖBIUS. The production of the wooden panels have officially begun at the Eurodach, where the team has been cutting the big triangles on CNC machine.

Check out the video below to see the machine in action.

MÖBIUS Construction Update #1

2013-04-25T19:43:07-04:00

The students at FLD have made prototypes of the wooden triangular modules for Möbius

Final Design of the Pavilion MÖBIUS

2013-04-24T00:14:00-04:00

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 environmental pavilion will go by the name 'Möbius' (the pavilion's form) and have the description paRESITE (play on the words parametric, parasite, and reSITE).

The final design of Möbius was inspired by the mobius strip, a surface with only one side and only one boundary components. The semi-enclosed form protects against the harsh elements of nature while letting the gentle ones in while the triangular modules provide stability. On each trianglular module, there are 3 seperate “petals” that open and close responding to the humidity. With the help of Rhino and Grasshopper, we were able to realize the concept.

With the finalized design, the FLD students are now in the stage of fabricating the pieces of thi...

Mobius Strip

2013-04-24T00:11:19-04:00

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.

Team B's Scale Model

2013-04-23T23:32:04-04:00

Team B (aka "Predators")

Groupie pic #2. Yay.

1:1 Scale Model - Team A

2013-04-23T23:07:02-04:00

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 knew we wanted the triangle modular system, but how were we to put it all together? The first solution was by "stitching" the panels together, but we realized how unstable it was (and also very ugly). We decided to go with what's best been done with any type of joint system: screws and bolts.

Groupie pic. Yay.

The "petals" will be added within the triangles to allow certain parts to be more protected from the environment (sunlight, rain, wind, etc.)

So what did we find out? 1. We really need Grasshopper to speed this whole process of calculations 2. Stitching looks bad 3. Petals look neat 4. We are far from being done

Work in Progress

2013-04-23T15:34:37-04:00

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 ridiculously corny and random, we will just proceed by addressing the teams as A or B.)

The 2 groups presented the progresses made on a Saturday workshop.

Team B's working models. Martin doesn't look too happy.

Team A's working models.

In the end, our leaders Marie and Martin were not completely convinced with the results, so we were told to spend another week to figure out the pavilion structure system.

Exploring the Pavilion Structure System

2013-04-14T21:51:51-04:00

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.

Pavilion Design Proposals

2013-04-14T21:32:38-04:00

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 Plechat (CZE)

Nefeli Dimopoulou (GRC)

Alena Repina (RUS)

Martin Zemlicka (CZE)

Daria Chertkova (RUS)

Martin Misik (SVK)

And the Winner Is...

2013-03-27T08:08:20-04:00

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 see how everyone had such different approaches to the design. While there were many ideas that intrigued the viewers, the jury had to decide on a winning design to actually build. The winners were:

1ST PLACE: The first place went to Yuliya Pozynich's tessellation design.

2ND PLACE: Dessislava (Dessy) Mandanska's design was chosen as the second winning proposal. Dessy's design focuses on playing with lights: the shadows created by the sunlight during the day vs. the illumination of the pavilion during the night.

Congratulations to both Yuliya and Dessy!

Ready, Set, Go!

2013-03-23T13:59:16-04:00

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 programing.

Rhino + Grasshopper workshop

Teaming up with the students from LFD (codename: forest people), we went to visit their laboratories dedicated to wood research. To be honest, I thought all forestry students did was just hangout in the forest (hence the codename). It was fascinating to see how much lab research can be done with wood,

2. Design proposals

Each student at ARCHIP came up with a design proposal for the environmental pavilion and consulted with our leaders Marie and Martin. Here is an excerpt from our brief:

Students will design and build a pavilion in maximum area of 25m² and height 5m that will stand on Alšovo nábřeží in front of the AAAD. The pavilion ...

Environmental Pavilion for reSITE

2013-02-27T09:42:23-05:00

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 (CZU). Our aim is to broaden the discussion on the wood's material properties in relation to environment, and if all goes according to plan, the environmental pavilion will be completed in June for the 2013 reSITE Festival.

What is reSITE? reSITE Festival is an annual event that takes place in the heart of Europe - Prague. It is a platform to exchange ideas about making cities more livable, highlighting how contemporary, collaborative design can improve life in cities.

Stay tuned with our blog to see the progress of the pavilion!