Expo 2005 Aichi - French Pavillon
Buildings
Bridges - Footbridges
Pylons
Client : French Ministery of Culture
Designer : ENIA (Director), Sylvain Dubuisson (Artistic director), MaP3 (BET structure)
Surface : 780 mē
Structure weight : 3 kg/mē
Work budget : 240 000 Euros
Date : May 2005
The idea of the project is to create an exposition room in an existing warehouse.
The skin is made of felt, and undergoes a double curving deformation.
This form is obtained with the natural deformation of a steel "hairnet" suspended at seven different points. The hairnet is made of diamond-crossed ribs, presenting a lot less membrane rigidity than a triangled mesh hairnet.
