Waf 2016 display shortlist

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Office of the Future / Future Foundation Pavillion

Killa Design leads the way for future emerging technologies with Office of the Future Killa Design (along with Gensler) has developed the world’s first fully functional and permanently occupied 3D printed building in Dubai, UAE. The Office of the Future building is currently the temporary home for the Dubai Future Foundation as well as an exhibition space and incubator for future emerging technologies in the region. The entire structure was printed in concrete using an additive manufacturing technique. It is truly the first fully occupied building in the world to be constructed using such techniques. We made use of a structural bay developed by Gensler in association with Thornton Tomasetti tocreate the office complex comprising a gall... More

Leonardo Finotti

Project • By SPADONI AA • Pavilions

Hyundai Pavilion

The Hyundai Pavilion, located in a symbolical corner of the city of São Paulo, can be described from two elements: a glass wall to the front of the main avenue, detached from the building’s main structure, which receives the brand’s logo and two central blocks which contain the programme. Wall and main structure sometimes split in two elements; sometimes join themselves as a solid. The project was developed to be executed in three months. Therefore, we had to structure it under rational constructive bases and favor the expression of the used materials. STRUCTURE The pavilion was inserted in a L shape, which two legs have approximate dimensions of 45m length x 12,5m width x 8m height, and is supported in the façades by profiles of... More