DETAIL: LANDESGARTENSCHAU EXHIBITION HALL

摘要

Robots are gaining traction when it comes to the construction of geometrically complex assemblies. In April, Stuttgart University's Institute for Computational Design completed the Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall, a 1,345-square-foot, 20-foot-tall pavilion with a prefabricated lightweight timber shell with 2,640 square feet of surface area. It is the world's first structure to be made entirely of robot-fabricated plates, according to the project team. The researchers selected beech plywood for its lightness, strength, local availability, and alignment with sustainable forestry practices in Central Europe. After studying the microscopic plate joints in sand dollars, they devised a series of 50-millimeter-thick plates with perimeter finger joints for panel-to-panel connections.