JINHUA BOOK PAVILION

ARCH     
Michael Maltzen Architects
Tim Williams / Project Manager

ENG      
Guy Nordenson and Associates
Erik A Nelson / Project Engineer

CLIENT    
Ai Wei Wei

LOC    
Jinhua, Rep of CHINA

YR            
2005

DESCRIPTION

This structure is part of an architecture park In Jinhua, China by an artist
Ai Wei Wei featuring pavilions designed by 16 architects from around the
world. Michael Maltzen's Pavilion No. 15 is a cantilevered tapered
structure with high strength tie rods and plate moment frames.  Photo
below left from Iwan Bann.

BOOK - "SUPPORT AND RESIST"

Structural Engineers and Design Innovation by Nina Rappaport

"Together Maltzan, Nordenson and project engineer Erik Nelson
rethought the skin, designed instead a double layer of slotted perforated
metal panels with larger rectangular openings.  The structural steel is
visible between the planes of wall."  Maltzen says "As opposed to
architecture leading decisions about the structure, it inverted halfway
through the process and the structure led the development of the project."
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