The Ongreening Pavilion

Harding, John; Pearson, Will; Lewis, Harri; Melville, Stephen

Abstract

This paper describes the work of Ramboll Computational Design during the design and construction of the Ongreening Pavilion timber gridshell. The structural approach involved form-?nding bending-active timber laths, connected at intersections to form a doubly curved shell. The resulting form was simple to fab-ricate and assemble, realised using 6.5mm thick Finnish birch plywood laths that could achieve high curvature while maintaining desired strength. Due to the ran-dom nature of the ?nal lath topology, the resulting structure was extremely stiff in spite of its low material weight, acting similarly to a continuous monocoque. The fully demountable shell was ?rst erected at Ecobuild 2014 in London.

Citation

Harding, J., Pearson, W., Lewis, H., & Melville, S. (2015). The Ongreening Pavilion. In P. Block, J. Knippers, N. Mitra, & W. Wang (Eds.), Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014, 295-308. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11418-7_19

• Acceptance Date: Jul 16, 2014
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 295-308
• Book Title: Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014
• ISBN: 9783319114170
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11418-7_19
• Keywords: Ongreening Pavilion, gridshell, Ecobuild 2014
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11418-7_19
• Additional Information: Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014