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Shanghai-based practice dongqi Design shapes cafes, exhibition corridors, and cultural spaces through precise mechanical joinery, exposed structural hardware, and layered material transparency. The portfolio serves as a strong reference when detailing custom structural assemblies, integrating light armatures into vertical supports, or calibrating optical depth across compact commercial interiors.

Exhibition pavilion built from stacked cardboard tubes with an industrial robotic arm inside by dongqi Design.

8_上海-C-STAR-展览

上海

An exhibition pavilion precedent demonstrating how stacked industrial cardboard tubes can form expressive, semi-transparent spatial partitions around a robotic fabrication display.

What we like about this project
The structural walls are built entirely from thousands of small hollow paper tubes acting as bricks.

Materials

  • cardboard-tubes
  • steel
  • acrylic

Visual identifiers

  • cardboard-tubes
  • robotic-arm
  • cellular-wall
  • exhibition-pavilion

Style tags

  • parametric
  • experimental
  • industrial

Visual tags

  • parametric
  • fabrication
  • temporary-architecture
  • industrial
  • sustainable-materials
Geometry
Curvilinear partition walls constructed entirely from aggregated cylindrical cardboard tubes stacked horizontally to create cellular, porous screens.
Facade system
Stacked hollow cylindrical cardboard tube matrix acting as a porous screen wall.
Structural guess
Stack-bonded cellular paper tube assemblies functioning as self-supporting partitions.
Spatial scale
Exhibition pavilion scale, roughly human-height walls surrounding a robotic fabrication display.
Lighting
Bright indoor exhibition hall lighting supplemented by integrated spotlights highlighting the robotic arm and tube wall cavities.
Atmosphere
Dynamic, high-tech workspace feel blending raw industrial machinery with tactile, cellular cardboard materiality.
Environmental context
Convention center or trade show hall with exposed truss ceiling overhead.
Spatial experience
A semi-enclosed exhibition booth featuring layered, textured boundaries that allow filtered views through the hollow cores of the tubes.
Composition rhythm
Repetitive circular grid pattern formed by the open ends and stacked walls of cylindrical tubes.
Style reading
Experimental digital fabrication pavilion
Program
Trade show exhibition booth
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
architecture
Materials
cardboard-tubes, steel, acrylic
Visual identifiers
cardboard-tubes, robotic-arm, cellular-wall, exhibition-pavilion
Style tags
parametric, experimental, industrial
Visual tags
parametric, fabrication, temporary-architecture, industrial, sustainable-materials
Geometry
Curvilinear partition walls constructed entirely from aggregated cylindrical cardboard tubes stacked horizontally to create cellular, porous screens.
Facade system
Stacked hollow cylindrical cardboard tube matrix acting as a porous screen wall.
Structural guess
Stack-bonded cellular paper tube assemblies functioning as self-supporting partitions.
Spatial scale
Exhibition pavilion scale, roughly human-height walls surrounding a robotic fabrication display.
Lighting
Bright indoor exhibition hall lighting supplemented by integrated spotlights highlighting the robotic arm and tube wall cavities.
Atmosphere
Dynamic, high-tech workspace feel blending raw industrial machinery with tactile, cellular cardboard materiality.
Environmental context
Convention center or trade show hall with exposed truss ceiling overhead.
Spatial experience
A semi-enclosed exhibition booth featuring layered, textured boundaries that allow filtered views through the hollow cores of the tubes.
Composition rhythm
Repetitive circular grid pattern formed by the open ends and stacked walls of cylindrical tubes.
Style reading
Experimental digital fabrication pavilion
Program
Trade show exhibition booth
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
architecture

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Exhibition pavilion built from stacked cardboard tubes with an industrial robotic arm inside by dongqi Design.

8_上海-C-STAR-展览

上海

An exhibition pavilion precedent demonstrating how stacked industrial cardboard tubes can form expressive, semi-transparent spatial partitions around a robotic fabrication display.

What we like about this project
The structural walls are built entirely from thousands of small hollow paper tubes acting as bricks.

Materials

  • cardboard-tubes
  • steel
  • acrylic

Visual identifiers

  • cardboard-tubes
  • robotic-arm
  • cellular-wall
  • exhibition-pavilion

Style tags

  • parametric
  • experimental
  • industrial

Visual tags

  • parametric
  • fabrication
  • temporary-architecture
  • industrial
  • sustainable-materials
Geometry
Curvilinear partition walls constructed entirely from aggregated cylindrical cardboard tubes stacked horizontally to create cellular, porous screens.
Facade system
Stacked hollow cylindrical cardboard tube matrix acting as a porous screen wall.
Structural guess
Stack-bonded cellular paper tube assemblies functioning as self-supporting partitions.
Spatial scale
Exhibition pavilion scale, roughly human-height walls surrounding a robotic fabrication display.
Lighting
Bright indoor exhibition hall lighting supplemented by integrated spotlights highlighting the robotic arm and tube wall cavities.
Atmosphere
Dynamic, high-tech workspace feel blending raw industrial machinery with tactile, cellular cardboard materiality.
Environmental context
Convention center or trade show hall with exposed truss ceiling overhead.
Spatial experience
A semi-enclosed exhibition booth featuring layered, textured boundaries that allow filtered views through the hollow cores of the tubes.
Composition rhythm
Repetitive circular grid pattern formed by the open ends and stacked walls of cylindrical tubes.
Style reading
Experimental digital fabrication pavilion
Program
Trade show exhibition booth
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
architecture
Materials
cardboard-tubes, steel, acrylic
Visual identifiers
cardboard-tubes, robotic-arm, cellular-wall, exhibition-pavilion
Style tags
parametric, experimental, industrial
Visual tags
parametric, fabrication, temporary-architecture, industrial, sustainable-materials
Geometry
Curvilinear partition walls constructed entirely from aggregated cylindrical cardboard tubes stacked horizontally to create cellular, porous screens.
Facade system
Stacked hollow cylindrical cardboard tube matrix acting as a porous screen wall.
Structural guess
Stack-bonded cellular paper tube assemblies functioning as self-supporting partitions.
Spatial scale
Exhibition pavilion scale, roughly human-height walls surrounding a robotic fabrication display.
Lighting
Bright indoor exhibition hall lighting supplemented by integrated spotlights highlighting the robotic arm and tube wall cavities.
Atmosphere
Dynamic, high-tech workspace feel blending raw industrial machinery with tactile, cellular cardboard materiality.
Environmental context
Convention center or trade show hall with exposed truss ceiling overhead.
Spatial experience
A semi-enclosed exhibition booth featuring layered, textured boundaries that allow filtered views through the hollow cores of the tubes.
Composition rhythm
Repetitive circular grid pattern formed by the open ends and stacked walls of cylindrical tubes.
Style reading
Experimental digital fabrication pavilion
Program
Trade show exhibition booth
Perspective
Interior Spatial
Discipline
architecture

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