Spidery Shellstar Pavilion Lures Festival Goers into its Web in an Empty Hong Kong Lot

The spidery Shellstar Pavilion was designed to entice festival goers at the Detour Art and Design Festival that took place last December in Hong Kong. Created by <a href="http://matsysdesign.com/2013/02/27/shellstar-pavilion/">MATSYS</a> using digital modeling, the curved shelter was specifically designed to lure in attendees like a vortex or a web, and then spit them out on other end so they could proceed to other offerings.

This spidery pavilion was commissioned for a design festival in Hong Kong

It was designed, fabricated and assembled in just six weeks

The idea was to create a temporary pavilion that maximized space using the smallest amount of materials

The design was also crafted to lure people in and then spit them out the other side - in order to facilitate further exploration of the festival

The pavilion was assembled in an empty parking lot in Hong Kong

This diagram illustrates how the team achieved the curved form with digital modeling