BOXEL / Students of Detmolder Schule

Aug 2010

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Featured ,Pavilion , Detmold, Germany

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The experimental pavilion BOXEL was designed and realized by students of the architecture department during the last summer semester on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences in Detmold. The expressive design by Henri Schweynoch, which succeeded in an impromptu competition, creates a generous spatial scenery for presentations, concerts, events and gatherings on the campus. More images and information after the break.

Within the digital design course, led by Prof. Marco Hemmerling, the students were not only asked to design a summer pavilion but also to construct and realize the design as a mock-up in scale 1:1, using digital design and fabrication tools. Against this background the digital workflow including parameters of production, construction and material became key issues of the further process.

The building shape is based on a minimal surface and consists of more than 2.000 beer boxes that are organized along the free form geometry. The temporary construction was designed using parametric software to control the position of the boxes in relation to the overall geometry and to analyze the structural performance.

In order to define the construction concept and the detailing of the connection several static load tests were made to understand the structural behaviour of the unusual building material, especially since the empty beer boxes were not stacked onto but freely organized next to each other. In parallel to a series of shearing and bending tests in the university’s laboratory of material research the structural concept was simulated and optimized using FEM-Software.

Finally a simple system of slats and screws was chosen for the assembly of the pavilion that allowed for a flexible and invisible connection. Additional bracings were placed in the upper part of the boxes to generate the required stiffness of the modules. The structural load transfer was realized by concrete-lined boxes at the three base points that served as foundation for the pavilion.

BOXEL was erected in only one week by the students and served as a scenic background for the end of semester party and during the international summer school (www.a-d-a-d.com) at the University in Detmold. The beer boxes which, after being ten years in use, were supplied by the local brewery and will be recycled when the pavilion is being disassembled.

A second pavilion design that is based on moveable wooden frames, designed by Lisa Hagemann, was also selected during the competition phase and will probably be realized during the next summer semester in 2011.

Teaching staff: Prof. Marco Hemmerling, Visiting-Prof. Matthias Michl, David Lemberski, Guido Brand and Claus Deis
Students: Henri Schweynoch (Design), Guido Spriewald, Elena Daweke, Lisa Hagemann, Bernd Benkel, Thomas Serwas Michael Brezina, Samin Magriso, Caroline Zij, Michelle Layahou with Jan Bienek, Christoph Strotmann, Matthias Kemper, Frank Püchner, Florian Tolksdorf, Florian Nienhaus, Andre Osterhaus, Viktoria Vaintraub, Jörg Linden, Bianca Mohr, Kristina Schmolinski, Tobias Jonk

: © Dirk Schelpmeier, Marcus Brehm

: © Dirk Schelpmeier, Marcus Brehm

: © Dirk Schelpmeier, Marcus Brehm

: © Dirk Schelpmeier, Marcus Brehm

: © Dirk Schelpmeier, Marcus Brehm

: © Dirk Schelpmeier, Marcus Brehm

Cite:
Jordana , Sebastian . "BOXEL / Students of Detmolder Schule" 15 Aug 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 04 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/73173>

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GooRoo says:

woah :) my university has been mentioned in archdaily :) yayyyy

# August 15, 2010 at 11:40

tfa says:

really nice! congratulations!

# August 15, 2010 at 17:10

Daniela says:

This is really nice, reminds me of our planted milk crate structure on Governor’s Island. http://builtecology.blogspot.com/2010/06/living-pavilion-dispatch-6-construction.html

# August 15, 2010 at 17:34

up_today_arch says:

Very impressiv stock of boxes:)… Just imagine, if these boxes are floating, and we can repeate this wava again and again, it would be big floating platform for sity on the water:)… from used matireals…

# August 16, 2010 at 10:29

æon says:

I remember some LEGO tower I saw time ago, in various blogs

# August 17, 2010 at 04:10

merce says:

enhorabuena por tu trabajo

# August 19, 2010 at 04:38

SmartAlex says:

my 2 passions all-in-one: architecture and beer. Simply love it, very interesting work!

# September 12, 2010 at 09:01

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# May 19, 2011 at 11:51

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