Packed Pavillion

The pavilion is the final group-project of the Master Advanced Study at the Chair of Computer Aided Architectural Design (MAS CAAD) at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. The CAAD Chair is specialized in the application of information technologies in the field of architecture and in computer-controlled fabrication.

Packed, a pavilion made out of 409 truncated cones, all vary in size, which all together are aimed to fill the surface creating a network. Each cone is different in size, form and position, together all the cones have a common aim to have overall stability, shape, illumination, views and spatial quality. The shapes in cardboard where cut and labled with a G3 Digital cutter, it took 3 men on a period of 10 days over a 24 hour shift to cut all the shapes.

Corrugated cardboard was used to manufacture these cones, a layer on top of the other, 28 in all; of which was cut, glued and labelled with a computer-controlled machine. Weatherproofing is provided by a shrink foil, a packing material like all the other that form the pavilion.