This pavilion was first designed and built by students of the Tampere University of Technology. The "scales" on the pavilion are meant to symbolize the scales of a dragon's body, a great cultural symbol to where the pavilion was displayed. The curved forms of the wood contradicts the common perception of what wood is supposed to look like. The scales were pre heated and bent with the aid of the CNC router and use of computer algorithms.
Making forms such as this would have been much more difficult before the age of CNC routers and mechanized timber treatment. Because of the precision of the fabrication techniques, the artists are able to create slot joints for the pieces to come together perfectly and have the final form look exactly like how it is modeled in the digital world. This project is intriguing to me because it uses wood in a way that would be considered unconventional and defies the usually hard, flat material quality of wood.
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