with a little help from my friends...

The Beatles got that one right. Here's a little help from our friend across the pond in NYC.

Many thanks to rhinoscripting guru Marc Fornes of theverymany for his coding assistance, illustrated below.

No, it's not arabic script, it's rhinoscript. 600+ panels, unrolled, nested and annotated...

a sample profile...we still need to optimize profile lengths to fit on a standard 5m x 1.2m or 3m x 1.2m Fibre-C sheets....and of course nest them for optimal material usage.
a sample of a script Marc wrote to generate a pattern for the segmentation of the surface based on subdividing the isocurves of our "host" surface.
another iteration of the same script. unfortunately, we can't use these scripts as we are now being asked to limit section profiles to be completely planar.

structural optimization...

To optimise the structural performance, and reduce the possible range of tolerances on the joints, we are developing the pavilion as three distinct, but interwoven structures that will be spliced together:

1. Roof canopy
2. Seating
3. Deck

We have also modified the geometry and the sections so that all section cuts are now completely planar. This will help reduce the complexity and tolerances for assembling something with over 1500 joints. Still trying to get that number down too, without losing the density of the structure.

To do so, we are working on a structural pattern that will break the continuous spans of the sectional profiles shown in the images below into sectional lengths based on the standard dimensions of fibre-c panels (5mx1.2m and 3mx1.2m).

Here's a few screen shots of the revised roof geometry and sectional profiles:

a few of the other entries...

here's a few images of some of the other entries to the DRL10 pavilion competition. The finalists are also showcased on the DRL10 site.

if anyone knows of any other entries out there, please share!!

pre-judgement day at the AA

Marc Fornes

Paulo Ernesto Flores/Feng Xu

Yeygeniy Beylkin/Elif Erdine Baskin/Margarita Valova

Danilo Arsic

Carine Cohen/Britta Knobel

Ahmad Sukkar

Cesare GriffaDavide del Giudice/Massimiliano De Leo

Lucio Santos

Richad Wang/Stephen Wang

geometry refinement....

here's a few screen shots of the current exercises:

1. refining & rationalising the shell geometry
2. refining & rationalising the section planes

competition jury images...

here's some images of the jurors from the DRL10 competition from AAlog.net posted from last week.

The competition was judged by:
Wolfgang Rieder, CEO, Rieder Co.
Dr Maria Pixner, Head of Innovations management, Rieder Co.
Hanif Kara, Principal, Adams Kara Taylor Associates
Brett Steele, Director, Architectural Association
Charles Walker, Architect, Zaha Hadid Architects

"From the original list of 28 entries that qualified for consideration for the competition judging, DRL staff narrowed the list down to three finalists. The announcement of a winning scheme that will be erected next February in Bedford Square will be made this weekend at AADRL.net"

"God is in the Details"

"God is in the Details." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Now I'm not religious, and I honestly don't know if Mies was or not. However, these words from the modernist master architect remind us that the purity and perfection of a design, lie in the beauty and elegance of it's details.

Here's a look at our first set of details from the competition stage. Not quite "God-ly", but we're working on them. The basic premise is that the entire pavilion is to be assembled by hand, with no mechanical fixings or connections. All joints are basic notch joints which slot into one another and are held together by flexing the sections into place. Neoprene gaskets are fitted in at each joint to compensate for tolerances and to help with friction.

which came first...the chicken or the egg?

"Form Follows Function" ...or do function(s) follow form??
the continous form of the pavilion transitions from horizontal flooring...to contoured seating...to counter top...to wall...to roof...and back. as the form mutates...so does the user interaction with the pavilion.

it begins...

Following the great news of the competition win, we now have to figure out how to build this thing. And do it within the very short time frame we have. And with a limited budget. and reasonable amount of material.

At the competition phase, we had 589 elements with over 7000 joints! We need to get those numbers down...and quickly.

7000 intersections = 7000 joints = 14000 neoprene shoes!!

So...we have started looking at reducing the density of the section profiles, and we are also looking at breaking the continuity of the cross sections as well. . Here's some images of the first version, with a material reduction of about 20%. This one is down to about 1900 intersections.


As you can see below, it's interesting to see how the density of the sections changes by your perspective. Both images are of the same density option, but are viewed from different positions.