AIA Pavilion, a flexible system of cellular building blocks

Abstract

The AIA Pavilion combines research about new materials for architecture with parameterization techniques and digital design and manufacturing processes. The pavilion was developed at the “Digital Design Build Studio”, that I direct at the Georgia Institute of Technology. With this studio I am researching the possibilities of digital design and fabrication in order to develop new construction methods for environmentally friendly materials. The AIA Pavilion in New Orleans allowed me to show how plastic can be used to build a new kind of lightweight structure that is affordable and environmentally friendly. (to be continued on PDF)