Article source: City Form Lab

The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)library pavilion is located on a sloping lawn on the temporary Dover Campus. Accommodating three mature trees and forming a noise barrier toward the Ayer Raja Expressway in the north, the gridshell structure of the pavilionharnesses the site constraints and activates an outdoor space behind the existing library building.

Image Courtesy © Philip Aldrup

• Architects: City Form Lab
• Project: SUTD Library Pavilion
• Location: Dover Drive, Singapore
• Photography: Philip Aldrup
• Unique plywood panels: 3,008
• Unique steel cladding tiles: 585
• Unique plywood spacer blocks: 3,255
• Bolts: 192,562
• Screws: 30,039
• Software used: McNeel, Rhino & RhinoPython script for architecture and gridshell, Oasys GSA and McNeel Rhino + Grasshopper for engineering