Carter Nelson: Looking Out Week 07

This project is another of Peter Zumpthor's works and is the Swiss Pavilion at the 2000 Hanover Expo in Hanover, Germany and is formed out of stacked, processed lumber. It is called the Swiss Sound Box and was created to be a sort of maze in which visitors to the Expo could rest and relax while experiencing music and food from Switzerland. The simplicity of Zumpthor's works are arguably one of the main aspects that makes his architecture so great and the simple stacking and articulation of processed lumber as walls and a grid accomplish many of the problems he sought to solve.







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