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Elytra Filament Pavilion wows at Victoria and Albert Museum
Monday 23rd May 2016
Held in place using Spirafix Ground Anchors the newly opened Elytra Filament Pavilion creates a stunning temporary addition to the beautiful V&A - to help celebrate Engineering Season.
The Pavilion is made up of 40 hexagonal pieces which have all be robotically fabricated from a mixture of transparent glass fibre and black carbon fibre.
The design was a collaboration but at its centre is the reference to Elytra - the fibrous structure of beetle's fore wings.
The main stanchions are held in place using Spirafix Ground Anchors in conjunction with a bespoke base plate.
Take a look at more details and photographs of the project on the V&A website here - V&A
ELYTRA - FILAMENT PAVILION
Created by Achim Menges with Moritz Dörstelmann (ICD University of Stuttgart / Achim Menges Architect), Jan Knippers (ITKE University of Stuttgart / Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering), Thomas Auer (Transsolar Climate Engineering / TUM)
Commissioned by the V&A
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