DRAGON SKIN PAVILION

// BRIEF

The main focus of this exercise was to select a pavilion, decode the design logic and performance and finally to create a dynamic animation. The pavilion chosen for this exercise is the Dragon Skin Pavilion designed by Architects Emmi Keskisarja, Pekka Tynkkynen, Kristof Crolla (LEAD) and Sebastien Delagrange (LEAD),  in Kowloon Park, Hong Kong in 2012.

// PAVILION INFORMATION

Architects: Emmi Keskisarja, Pekka Tynkkynen, Kristof Crolla (LEAD) and Sebastien Delagrange (LEAD)
Location: Kowloon Park, Hong Kong
Size: 16m2
Year: 2012

The Dragon Skin Pavilion is an architectural art installation that was created to explore material possibilities in architecture through digital fabrication and material technology. The pavilion originated from a test study workshop that was held at the Tampere University of Technology for Finnish architecture students in the autumn of 2011. A first version of the pavilion was designed and built from scratch in only 8 days.

A second (Hong Kong-type) pavilion was constructed and exhibited at the 2012 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture. This second pavilion was constructed by a team consisting of material and structural engineers to make the structure humid-proof and structurally sound.

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ArchDaily:

Animated Systems / Dragon Skin Pavilion is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at the Master in Advanced Architecture in 2019 by:
Student: Ilaena Napier
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, Mohamad Elatab
Assistant: Ivan Marchuk, Oana Taut