Heidi Weber
Pavilion
- Heidi Weber Pavilion intended as a prototype for future mass housing scheme.
- A strategy for building a building.
- Actual building does not use the entire space underneath the parasol, theoretically
allowing for expansion.
- 226x226x226 steel frame cube is proposed for the structure.
- The cube is created using identical steel angles. Vertical and horizontal members are
made of the same stock.
- The systemized unit construction allows transformability of the structure to the
contractor and owner.
- In the final iteration, the structural member is created as a cruciform cross section
using 4 steel angles. A neoprene gasket between the angles allows for full weather closure
and produces a thermal break.
- Exterior wall is made with rigid insulation sandwiched by two sheets of steel. Panels
are the same depth of one steel angle. The panels are factory finished in baked enamel.
- Structure for the parasol is outside of the confines of the platform below.
- There is limited use of concrete. The majority of the structure is steel angles.
- The structural integrity of the roof is based on the folded plate.
- Due to the large span of the roof, le Corbusier introduces intermediate structural
members above the sheet steel to stiffen it.
- The joints of the sheet steel are finished to make it appear as a monolithic piece. This
makes the element unchangeable. The idea was to make it an iconographic profile.
- Some components are created in a factory and shipped to site, although there was
significant on site construction.
- Diaganol bracing is added for stiffening.
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