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interior space to the outside,
the exhibition architecture
and at the same time shade
in the hottest months of the
Expo,” said Lennart Wiechell,
Schmidhuber Chief Architect
and partner “Furthermore the
modules OPV help to reduce
energy used in the building
and safe resources. At the
Expo end the constructor
withdraw them for other uses.”
An efficient construction does
not mean only savings, light
buildings are characterized
by optimization and effective
exploitation of the physicalmechanical materials features.
In recent years the light
buildings have had a rebirth,
more constructions were built
with a not concrete skeletal
structure, whose façade was
built using panels in textile
membrane. The soft façades
uses materials optimized to
achieve large spans without
torsion or deformation
problems. For sustainability is
essential a long life, foldable
and reusable membranes.
In this case the large cover
leaves use these technologies
in order to offset the tissue’s
underlying construction
presence, flexibility was
taken, as we have seen,
even on photovoltaic panels.
A soft cover in contrast to
the monolithic simplicity of
underlying Pavilion.
The facade consists in a fiber
cement adjustable laminated
structure. The system made
with horizontal slabs in fiber
cement, similar to brise-soleil,
reduces direct solar irradiation,
waiver to a conventional
glazing façade, movable
walls and smoke evacuator
system decreases the energy
consumption directly, in fact
most of the interior spaces
have natural ventilation. The
Court closing space uses a
membrane with open pores,
able to sail on cover and to
protect only by insects.
The use of different veneers
for the walkways and external
horizontal links, with veins and
heterogeneous colors, gives a
strong and unique character to
the building. The Schmidhuber
studio, in his project, define
wood as “a charismatic
element, but also a witness to
a conscious use of renewable
raw materials with a balanced
CO2 budget.”
An important theme is that
related to the dismantling
of the Pavilion, the lamps of
the exhibition area and the
gastronomy appliance will be
disposed to Kaiserslautern
University.
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