versions...

Tuesday 19 February 2008

versions...

As any designer knows, you never get it right on the first try. However, reflecting on the path taken to arrive often illuminates the view at the final destination...

As things are gearing up for the upcoming DRL 10 Exhbition opening on Friday at the AA, we've been doing some back logging and digging up some of the various versions of the pavilion that have led us to where we are now.

The following images are from various stages of the development of the project and include early formal explorations of "skins", tests on sectioning and profiling arrangements, geometrical rationalization, and structural optimization. There are elements we have refined, developed, and improved. There are moments where we have had to sacrifice for the sake of constructability, efficiency, and structural stability. You win some...you lose some. In reverse chronological order...here's a few alternative versions of the pavilion...

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ALAN DEMPSEY

Alan Dempsey studied at the Architectural Association, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, and Dublin Institute of Technology. He has worked with Farjadi Architects, OCEAN, Future Systems and is a founding director of NEX, a London based architecture and design office with international projects.

He was an undergraduate unit master at the AA until 2005 and has been an invited critic at universities in the UK and Europe. His work has been widely published in the US, Europe and Asia and he is currently a director of the FAB research cluster at the AA, which facilitates research projects on novel design and fabrication technologies.

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ALVIN HUANG

Alvin Huang is the founding Director of SYNTHESIS. He is an award-winning designer and educator specializing in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary architectural practice.

Prior to forming SYNTHESIS, he was a founding director of London-based architectural practice AL_A. He has also worked for Future Systems, Zaha Hadid Architects, and DMJM Design (AECOM).

Alvin received a Masters of Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (2004) and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California (1998).

Huang has taught design studios at the Architectural Association / Tsinghua University Global School in Beijing and at the Chelsea College of Art in London. He has been an invited critic and guest lecturer at various universities and institutions in the UK, US, Germany, Spain, Israel, Switzerland and China.

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