UNFLAT Pavilion, architectural practices are continuously shifting to adapt new technologies and innovations. However, Nick Gelpi’s pavilion is a soft, cheap, low tech structure with a great aesthetic value. The bent plywood composition utilizes the physical range of behaviors of natural materials in order to generate architecture forms.
© Nick Gelpi
Situated on the MIT Campus, Cambridge Massachusetts, the freestanding pavilion leads the way for a ‘flat-to-form’ fabrication methodology. The structural and functional membrane of the pavilion was generated by the physical flexing of the material.
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