more from theverymany...

here's a few more images from Marc Fornes of theverymany, and his entry into the DRL10 pavilion competition. Marc is doing some fascinating generative geometries in RhinoScript. This entry explores the use of a Danzer Tile, which is an aperiodic tiling system. Check out his site for more. As seen in previous posts, Marc has generously been supplying us with coding support to help us automate the process of producing the documentation for our pavilion.

dpm pavilion

Plan & Elevations

here's another of the entries from the DRL10 competition. This one brought to you by Shajay Bhooshan, Brian C. Dale, Luis Fragada, and Victor Orive Garcia. Check out their images below, and Luis' Blog - LiveArchitecture.

Aerial Perspective

Perspective

Panel Fitness Optimization through MEL Scripting

meeting of the minds...

a photo from AAlog.net of our meeting yesterday with our structural engineering team and pavilion organizer Yusuke Obuchi. AKT is currently conducting analysis on the structural capacity of the pavilion and will also be conducting a series of tests on a few options for joint arrangements. From left to right Hanif Kara, Oliver Bruckermann, Jugatx Ansotegui, Alvin Huang, Alan Dempsey (photo taken by Yusuke Obuchi).

"DRL TEN Pavilion meeting at Adam Kara Taylor’s office on Farringdon St."

"The winning design team members Alan Dempsey (DRL ‘02) and Alvin Huang (DRL ‘04) met with AKT’s engineers Hanif Kara, Oliver Bruckermann and Jugatx Ansotegui and DRL’s Yusuke Obuchi today and discussed structural details of DRL TEN Pavilion. For more details on the pavilion, check out the pavilion blog: http://cspacepavilion.blogspot.com/"

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: