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Nuit Blanche Pavilion, Using the Elasticity of Polymers to Self-stabilize a Structure

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The Nuit Blanche Pavilion was an investigation that combined material behavior with the technical possibilities of current digital design and fabrication methods. The goal of the project was to develop a new form of lightweight structure. The project was inspired by a relationship between structure, geometry, material and appearance that can be found in biology. The project took advantage of a dynamic structural quality found in high-density polymers that was used to develop a self-supporting structural envelope.

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

    Gernot Riether

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  1. PLP Architecture London, UK

    Lars Hesselgren

  2. Buro Happold, London, UK

    Shrikant Sharma

  3. TU Graz, AUT

    Johannes Wallner

  4. RFR, Paris, FR

    Niccolo Baldassini , Philippe Bompas  & Jacques Raynaud ,  & 

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Riether, G. (2013). Nuit Blanche Pavilion, Using the Elasticity of Polymers to Self-stabilize a Structure. In: Hesselgren, L., Sharma, S., Wallner, J., Baldassini, N., Bompas, P., Raynaud, J. (eds) Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1251-9_15

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1251-9_15

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