LightPRO Shell

The project focused on designing and constructing a lightweight shell structure in the form of a 1:1 research pavilion, using pultruded natural fibre profiles — a newly developed product created by the BioMat research team in collaboration with academic and industrial partners.

My group was in charge of the profiles: we created a labelling system, ran chemical and physical tests, designed and used a bending tool for more quantifiable results, and organised deliveries and profile transportation. Testing, prefabrication and the initial studies were done at the IntCDC Workshop in Waiblingen.

In the second part of the project, all students and tutors took part in the building phase and the realisation of the overall structure on the university's campus in Mitte. It gave us the much-needed practical knowledge of every stage involved in making an architectural object — not just designing one.