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"Porsche Pavilion in Wolfsburg
A visit to the Autostadt Wolfsburg is not only worthwhile for vehicle lovers - since the completion of the spectacular Porsche Pavilion in 2012, architecture enthusiasts have also got their money's worth. The building planned by Henn architects from Munich was built opposite the Volkswagen pavilion on the approximately 28 hectare exhibition site in the middle of the artificial lagoon landscape. It is the first new building since the Autostadt opened in 2000.
The architects derived the rapidly curved shape of the building from the striking silhouette of the sports car. From the outside it is completely encased in matt stainless steel, which changes its appearance depending on the time of day and the incidence of light. Its external dimensions are 75 x 80 meters and the exhibition space is a good 400 square meters. On the entrance side, the pavilion juts out like a large wave 25 meters above the surface of the artificial lake. The asymmetrically shaped roof encloses a 290 square meter protected outdoor space, which is designed with staircase-shaped rows of seats as an event location for several hundred visitors. At the sides, the seating steps extend far beyond the roof and fit seamlessly into the outdoor facilities planned by WES landscape architects. [...]
Roof
The construction of the pavilion is based on the monocoque lightweight construction (French: single shell), as is common in ship, aircraft and automobile construction. With this technology of the "surface-active structure", the roof construction supports itself as a space-forming shell. It consists of 620 sheets of steel blasted with stainless steel granulate in thicknesses of 10 to 30 millimeters, which were welded with stiffening frames and transverse bulkheads in a shipyard in Stralsund and then mounted on site. It is 2,550 square meters in size and has a total weight of 425 tons. [...]
The material steel was chosen after the structural engineers had worked out different variants for the roof structure. A concrete shell was found to be too heavy, a shell made of aluminum and carbon was not possible due to German fire protection regulations and a grid shell with triangular meshes made of steel had too many joints in the outer skin. The lightweight monocoque construction in steel, on the other hand, enabled a smooth, jointless appearance with low weight, which looks like concrete from a distance and, thanks to a high degree of prefabrication, could be implemented comparatively inexpensively and quickly."
(Translated from www.baunetzwissen.de)
photo in Explore 04.03.2021
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"Porsche Pavilion in Wolfsburg
A visit to the Autostadt Wolfsburg is not only worthwhile for vehicle lovers - since the completion of the spectacular Porsche Pavilion in 2012, architecture enthusiasts have also got their money's worth. The building planned by Henn architects from Munich was built opposite the Volkswagen pavilion on the approximately 28 hectare exhibition site in the middle of the artificial lagoon landscape. It is the first new building since the Autostadt opened in 2000.
The architects derived the rapidly curved shape of the building from the striking silhouette of the sports car. From the outside it is completely encased in matt stainless steel, which changes its appearance depending on the time of day and the incidence of light. Its external dimensions are 75 x 80 meters and the exhibition space is a good 400 square meters. On the entrance side, the pavilion juts out like a large wave 25 meters above the surface of the artificial lake. The asymmetrically shaped roof encloses a 290 square meter protected outdoor space, which is designed with staircase-shaped rows of seats as an event location for several hundred visitors. At the sides, the seating steps extend far beyond the roof and fit seamlessly into the outdoor facilities planned by WES landscape architects. [...]
Roof
The construction of the pavilion is based on the monocoque lightweight construction (French: single shell), as is common in ship, aircraft and automobile construction. With this technology of the "surface-active structure", the roof construction supports itself as a space-forming shell. It consists of 620 sheets of steel blasted with stainless steel granulate in thicknesses of 10 to 30 millimeters, which were welded with stiffening frames and transverse bulkheads in a shipyard in Stralsund and then mounted on site. It is 2,550 square meters in size and has a total weight of 425 tons. [...]
The material steel was chosen after the structural engineers had worked out different variants for the roof structure. A concrete shell was found to be too heavy, a shell made of aluminum and carbon was not possible due to German fire protection regulations and a grid shell with triangular meshes made of steel had too many joints in the outer skin. The lightweight monocoque construction in steel, on the other hand, enabled a smooth, jointless appearance with low weight, which looks like concrete from a distance and, thanks to a high degree of prefabrication, could be implemented comparatively inexpensively and quickly."
(Translated from www.baunetzwissen.de)
photo in Explore 04.03.2021