Roof Structure Of The Japanese Pavilion At Expo 2000

Fireproof water resistant paper membrane roof.

Roof structure of the japanese pavilion at expo 2000.

First we will make a parametric surface with. Initially some 40 million people were expected to attend the exhibition over the course of months however eventually with less than half of this number the expo was a flop. The design by shigeru ban was conducted jointly with other architectural consultants as frei otto creator of munich olympic stadium and the german pavilion at expo 67 in montreal buro happold english engineering company responsible for the millennium dome and stefan polonyi professor of structural engineering. The project is located in hannover hanover region hannover lower saxony niedersachsen germany.

The goal was either to recycle or reuse almost all of the materials that went into the building. 440 cardboard roll measuring 12 centimeters in diameter. Ban created the japanese pavilion building at expo 2000 in hanover germany in collaboration with the architect frei otto and structural engineers buro happold. But due to stringent building laws in germany the roof had to be reinforced with a substructure.

In this rhino tutorial i will show you how you can model the 2000 japan pavilion by shigeru ban with rhino. The main theme of the hanover expo was the environment and the basic concept behind the japan pavilion was to create a structure that would produce as little industrial waste as possible when it was dismantled. The end walls are in a cable tensioned cardboard honeycomb construction while the roof skin consists of a five layer fire and waterproof paper membrane. It was located on the hanover fairground messegelände hannover which is the largest exhibition ground in the world.

The 72 metre long gridshell structure was made with paper tubes. The japanese pavilion for expo 2000 held in hannover germany was a grid structure made of recyclable paper tubes resulting in a building with honeycomb.