O-STRIPPavilion

O-STRIP Pavilion-Tongji University

O-STRIP Pavilion is one of the projects in Tongji University’s Fabrication workshop that aims to bring back the liveliness of the place. The site is located at a sinking space of the teaching building, which connects with an indoor exhibition hall. In non- exhibition time, there are few people using this space, and the space itself becomes negative. How to energize this place? The key is the strong representational power of the new structure, which can attract passers-by. Computational technology made complex-structure clear and speed up fabrication process. At the same time, the pavilion will be available for all kinds of campus activities.

O-STRIP Pavilion is a powerful campus attractor. It not only attracts architecture students and professors, but

also the uninitiated, who bring a lot of informal activities here, thus proving to be more than anunimportant temporary shelter. Furthermore, it successfully provides a flexible and comfortable space for variable events such as tea party, dating, photography, etc This project uses parametric design technology. As the constrained fabrication agenda and limited budget, they focused more on the possibility of materials and fabrication techniques. The final structure consists of 484unique pieces, which, once gathered, created a 3D curved loop. Thisunusual form incites curiosity of passer-bys,moreover, it accepts different activities and events.

Thanks to the parametric design techniques, the fabrication process has been well controlled, which is the exact geometry generation to piece labeling,assembly logic and actual fabrication.

Design Team: Shuang Gao (Project Principal), Jing Shao, Shengkan Zhang, Chunwei Zhang, Bin Yu Location: Tongji University, Shanghai, China Advisor: Philip Yuan

Photographs: ChunYu Hu, Philipp Gegner, Sai Luo , XueJun Xiong