Structural pattern

repetition & difference

At the basis of the following exploration of structural geometries towards new organizational structures at a larger scale, the strategies of transformation of several single components need to be guided by a series of concepts.

Can one push the underlying principle to its limits? What is the right tactic to get to the point where the systemic behavior proliferates variations?

(first 2 images by blush)

a) Inversion: An exterior surface is programmed on both sides, example: the roofscape being populated and having surface characteristics related to access and connection to other surfaces and planes below.

b) Continuity: A project engages predominantly multiple surfaces, which are interconnected such that the project utilizes as an example “roofed-over” facades, where one single surface receives a multitude of functions and properties. Like it fluently changes from roof to façade to floor and back etc..remember Ito…remember the different orientations of surfaces.

c)Incongruity: A geometry emphasizes an inscriptive procedure of free massing with strategies like volume-within-volume sections. Some of the characteristic spatial results are incongruous and residual spaces, which are either constant in their succession or interrupted into separated and non-regular parts.

…and complement these conceptual strategies with skill techniques of assembly and multiplication:

techniques:

the pleat/ the fold: folds in the surface might create not only a deformation but lead to structural rigidness in repetition or folding into each other

the layers: either an offset to stack sheets, or a slice in the surface to attach to other sheets-stripes

the weave: bended stripes, or twisted bands form mesh assemblies which also lead to structural stiffness

the eggcrate: multiple perpendicular surfaces joined for a common seam create light but stable structures

Assignm. due mon 13:
3D shape designs of selected assembly parties as a result of composing individual design component generations.

3D development in 11x17 “ sheet (8 ½ on pdf)