Nordic Pavillion

Sverre Fehn, Venice, Italy, 1962

Scale: 1:20
Materials: cardboard, mdf, objet trouvé, sand
Type: study
Detail: 4/7
Student: Anna Weckström, FS25

A 1:20 study model of Sverre Fehn's Nordic Pavilion depicting the pavilion's signature roof structure — a dense rhythmic array of curved concrete fins/rafters — supported on piloti-like piers, with a real found tree branch piercing the roof plane to evoke the building's celebrated tree-through-roof condition. The architectural elements are fabricated from MDF on a plywood base, with sand filling the ground courtyard zone. The model foregrounds the tectonic logic of the roof system and the phenomenological relationship between structure and nature.

How it's made — RAPLAB

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