ABSTRACT
The Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall is a permanent, and thus fully enclosed, insulated and waterproof building prototype whose primary structure has been robotically fabricated from regionally sourced beech plywood. The building was realised within the context of the Landesgartenschau, a horticultural and landscaping expo, in 2014, in Schwabisch Gmund, Germany. The development of the Exhibition Hall aimed at integrating considerations regarding programme, geometry, assembly, fabrication, structure, joints, quality requirements, and building regulations. However, established design methods seem ill equipped to concurrently consider these sometimes conflicting requirements at an early stage in the process. Tolerances in fabrication are usually accounted for in the joints between the elements by providing interstitial space in which inaccuracies of fabrication and assembly can be accommodated. The computational design environment plays a crucial role, as it is where all the requirements are synthesised. Finally, the proposed approach provides the possibility to be translated into a general method, which will be investigated in further research.
