Situated on the edge of the Stuttgart University campus is a new research pavilion. The starting point for this student scheme was the unexploited structural potential of plywood. The geometry is based on linked pairs of segmental arches, 40 of which (i.e. 80 radial strips) were needed to close a torus with an external diameter of 10 m. With a span of 3.5 m, this filigree structure is both efficient and stable. The faculty’s own industrial robot, configured as a CNC milling machine, was used to give each of the more than 500 timber elements its own geometry. The 10-metre plywood strips also had to be cut into segments for transport. The individual segments are subject to either tensile or bending stresses, whereby each tensile segment elastically maintains the form of the adjoining bending segment. The entire pavilion was constructed from birch-plywood strips only 6.5 mm thick.