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CAA 2021 Wood Shell Pavilion

CompanyOffice Off Course

University/SchoolChina Academy of Art

Lead ArchitectLi Huang( Studio Instructor)

Design TeamLiren CHU, Yu XU, Jiabao WANG,Ziyi SHENG Yiru WANG, Gaohong XU,Jiamin ZHANG , Meiyi CHEN , Ziyun FANG

ClientArchitecture Department of China Academy of Art

Project Videohttps://youtu.be/WdF_8Y4fAwY

The CAA 2021 Wood Shell Pavilion is one of the built projects in a series study focusing on thin and flexible wood and experiment new forms of structure to find suitable strategies of building a habitable space. A group of student are challenged to design and build by themselves a pavilion with a limited budget of 450 USD in only one month. This research is developed from a bottom-up approach which aimed to use minimized amount of material building a reliable structure in an innovative way where resources are limited in order to develop a path towards a more sustainable future of architecture.