Deubzer König + Rimmel Architekten | Projekte. TWiki . D2p . SwissBau. The CAAD Swissbau Pavilion was designed and built to show the potential of the digital chain on the Swissbau 2005 fair in Basel. It has the form of a sphere with two metres radius and reaches a height of three metres. It is assembled from quadrilateral wooden frames, each consisting of four wooden boards standing perpendicular on the surface of the sphere.
But while in a traditional coffered dome a regular structure dictates the placement of openings, here the frames are required to adapt their size and angles to the deliberately asymmetric placement of windows. To generate this adaptive geometry, an interactive software was programmed in Java that simulates the growth of a quadrilateral mesh on a sphere following simple rules: The edges try to align with the positions of the predefined openings and the floor level, while at the same time every mesh attempts to optimise its size and angles. Swissbau Pavilion, Basel 2005. CAAD.HBT.ETHZ.CH . Main . SwissbauPavilion. Closing the Digital Chain summary To show the potential of the "digital chain", a continuously digital process from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), the chair for CAAD developed a small pavilion for the SWISSBAU trade fair in Basel.
The pavilion has the form of a sphere with two metres radius and reaches a height of three metres. It is assembled from over 300 quadrilateral wooden frames, very much like a coffered dome. Every frame consists of four wooden boards standing perpendicular on the surface of the sphere, so the geometry is basically defined by a quadrilateral mesh spanned over the sphere and adapting to the floor level and the positions of the openings. This geometry was generated by an artificial-life simulation of a "growing mesh2 programmed in Java. The results of this generative design process were exported as XML-Data and then imported to the CAD package VectorWorks? Contact partners documentation / publications. From design to production.
From design to production: Three complex structures materialised in wood Fabian Scheurer, scheurer@arch.ethz.ch Christoph Schindler, schindler@arch.ethz.ch Markus Braach, braach@arch.ethz.ch Chair of Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich www.caad.arch.ethz.ch This paper explains some concepts used by the designtoproduction group at the Chair of CAAD to materialise complex form by example of three recent projects that were realised in collaboration with different partners: First, a platform for the exhibition “Inventioneering Architecture” in San Francisco, where a NURBS-surface was translated into the geometry for 1000 individually shaped rafters forming a doubly curved surface of 120 square metres.
In contemporary architecture a strong current is observable towards organic, non-orthogonal, free and complex form. 1.1 Doubly curved: Exhibition platform for “Inventioneering Architecture” 1.2 Complex puzzle: Libeskind’s Futuropolis Sculpture. Acoustic Barrier / ONL. Architects: ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands Design team: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd, Cas Aalbers, Sander Boer, Tom Hals, Dimitar Karanikolov, Tom Smith, Richard Lewis, Barbara Janssen, Gijs Joosen, Andrei Badescu, Maciek Swiatkowski, Rafael Seemann Engineering: ONL, Meijers Staalbouw BV, Pilkington Benelux BV Client: Projectbureau Leidsche Rijn Utrecht Production: Meijers Staalbouw BV Project year: 2006 Budget: US $6,52 M Photographs: ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] The architectural-urban planning project Hessing Cockpit in Acoustic Barrier is innnovative in several seperate fields: 1.
Urban planning innovation The design integrates a building volume in an acoustic barrier. ONL has defined a few clear design rules, which are specified in the SPVE [urban planning design requirements]. The building is designed with the speed of a car passing at 120km/h. 2. The design is a pure example of Non Standard Architecture realized on a big scale. 3. 4. 5. KFM- Technologies. International Terminal, , Architect- Grimshaw The glazing of complex 3D surfaces relies heavily on the understanding of the limitations of manufacture and construction techniques. From very early on in the design stages it was obvious that the site profile, dictated by the track alignment, would influence all geometric decisions. Geometry, flexibility and buildability were the key to success through a thorough understanding of fabrication, manufacturing and building processes.
Standardization was critical for success and the key problem was to reconcile this to a very irregular morphology. A solution was reached that enabled 230 ‘standard’ rectangular glass panels out of a total of 1680. Images copyright GRIMSHAW. Interactive, Graphic Statics-based Structural Design || eQUILIBRIUM. International Terminal Waterloo < Projects | Grimshaw Architects. The International Terminal Waterloo is a multi-faceted transport interchange that was designed to facilitate the journeys of 15 million international rail passengers per year. Grimshaw’s brief for the project was to build a streamlined terminal, and because of the international service, it had all the requirements of an airport including full security screening, immigration and customs border control.
All within a constrained central London site, through which passengers could pass quickly and efficiently. The resulting landmark design is a monument to the new railway age heralded by the advent of cross-channel rail travel in Britain. The roof responds to the dictates of the site, specifically to the west where it must rise more steeply in order to accommodate the height of the trains. The building design of the western side is clad in glass, providing arriving passengers with views of Westminster. AL_A : Amanda Levete Architects. News Profile Selected Projects Selected Furniture Archive Writing Recruitment Contact Oxford Street London Conceived and completed as Future Systems 2008 CAB Aluminium in Renovation Award UK, Commendation 2009 Share.
AL_A : Amanda Levete Architects. News Profile Selected Projects Selected Furniture Archive Writing Recruitment Contact Corian Super-surfaces London & Milan Completed 2009 World Architecture Festival Interiors & Fit-Out Prize 2009 Share. The Kimball Art Centre by BIG. Slideshow: architects BIG have won a competition to renovate and extend an art centre in Utah with proposals that will be built from railway sleepers reclaimed from the Great Salt Lake.
The new five-storey-high wing of the Kimball Art Centre will provide exhibition galleries both at basement level and upstairs, connected to each another and to a restaurant between by a winding staircase. A rooftop terrace will overlook the existing building, which the architects intend to convert into an educational centre. Visitors will enter both buildings though a double-height reception lobby where openings will provide peeping views to the galleries below. The project is due to start on site next year, for completion in 2015. BIG won the competition ahead of four other shortlisted firms – you can see the proposals of Californian architects Brooks + Scarpa here. Here's a statement from the Kimball Art Centre: BIG’s Design for Kimball Art Center Projected for Completion by Mid-2015 Two new galleries Program. Phosphorescence. BiothingAlisa Andrasek + Jose Sanchez_ principal designersdesign team: Elizabeth Leidy – Alicia Nahmad – Denis Vlieghe – Rajat SodhiCompetition Entry 2010 – Phase 1 – 80,000 sq meters + 20,000 sq meters open air public space Sonar phosphorescence: A new version of iconic resonating within the current cultures.
Guided by the iconic features of pop culture such as exuberant colors and light, Phosphorescence explores the possibilities of bringing such polychromatic shimmer qualities to the site. As contemporary scientists marking brain neurons with phosphorescent glow to open new dimensions of our knowledge of the brain, we simultaneously sampled electrified lightscape of Taiwanese streets and night markets. 2 types of organizational systems distribute other sub-systems within a project. In place of inflexible totalizing master plan logic we are proposing resilient adaptive mathematical logics designed for inter-systems crossing at multiple scales. Reticulars. The Reticulars Series: surface accessories biothingAlisa Andrasek _ principal designerDesign+Computation: Tobias Schwinn The RETICULARS are parametrically variable series applied to interior architectural systems such as ceilings and walls.
This surface “accessory” distributes soft infrastructures such as lighting, sound and storage. Wave functions were used as a dominant algorithmic logic to differentiate size and orientation of cells. The Reticulars series investigate the production of architectural systems using algorithmically differential geometry. Reticulars. /////Prizma // Budva Montenegro. BiothingAlisa Andrasek_ principal designerArchitecture / Computation: Jose Sanchez – Jose Cadilhe Design Team: Kathleen O’Donnell – Vincenzo D’Auria – Bridget Munro Competition Entry 2012 – Phase 1 – 6033 sq meters Tectonics of the PRIZMA building are developed in order to capture elements of its environment and amplify them. Wrinkling of the facade surface is increasing the exposure to the exterior, taking the advantage of the abundance of views and sun.
Inspired by the morphology of the Budva’s Old City architectural fabric, PRIZMA resonates its rich qualities through the heterogeneous packing of rectangular volumes on its facades. Because of its subtle, straight edged, yet advanced geometry, the building is designed to stand out from its surroundings, adding a note of complexity through the richness of its angles.
Their definition for the terraces and bay windows are mathematically pre-programed to provide diversified yet pointed vistas towards the Old City and the sea. NEX Architecture: Times Eureka Pavilion « Michal Piasecki. Michal Piasecki recently worked for NEX Architecture on Times Eureka Pavilion. The project, commissioned by Times newspaper and Kew Gardens, was undertaken in collaboration with landscape architects Marcus Barnett. It is about to be opened during RHS Chelsea Flower Show on 25th of May 2011 in London. Detailed description is available from NEX. Michal’s responsibility was to develop a series of scripts and parametric models for all design stages. Michał Piasecki pracował niedawno dla NEX Architecture nad projektem Times Eureka Pavilion. Zadaniem Michała było opracowanie szeregu skryptów i modeli parametrycznych , których używano na wszystkich etapach pracy nad projektem.
Like this: Like Loading... Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre. Facades Henning Larsen Architects has designed the facade of the Concert Hall in close collaboration with the local architects Batteríið Architects and the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. As the rest of the building, the design of the facades is inspired by nature. In particular, the characteristic local basalt formations have provided the inspiration for the geometric facade structure. Made of glass and steel in a twelve-sided space-filling geometric modular system called the 'quasi-brick', the building appears a kaleidoscopic play of colours, reflected in the more than 1000 quasi-bricks composing the southern facade. The remaining facades and the roof are made of sectional representations of this geometric system, resulting in two-dimensional flat facades of five and six-sided structural frames. Light and transparency are key elements in the building.
Flekkefjord Cultural House | Projects | Helen & Hard. Use arrow keys to browseScroll down for information Close Flekkefjord Cultural HouseFlekkefjord, Norway 35% gross area cut during SD Flekkefjord Cultural House A new culture house in the historic timber town of Flekkefjord Location Flekkefjord, Norway Client Flekkefjord Kommune Scheduled completion 2016 The project, on the waterfront of Flekkefjord as town on Norway’s south coast, incorporates a theater hall, a cinema, a library, a gallery, a youth club and a cultural school. Flekkefjord’s narrow streets are lined with traditional timber houses, whose small scale contrasts starkly with the massive volumes of the new Cultural Center. Team: Dag Strass, Elliet Spring, Moritz Groba (competition)
Middelfart Savings Bank / 3XN. 3XN - Middelfart Savings Bank in Middelfart, Denmark. Siberian photo (re) synthesis. Pneumatic gridshell: project details-Planex Technik in Textil GmbH. Active modular phytoremediation system on A+U. AMPS Mockup.