Form fitness explorations in Architecture.


Seeking to escape site-specific narratives, programmatic limitations and typological control; this class will explore architecture’s own generative and material capacities to become an organizational mechanism that relates to function.

During this academic term, we will make use of thorough digital experimentation. The use of advanced NURBS operations, computational fluid dynamics and parametric growth engines will be critical to challenge the formal conventions of building envelope and supporting systems—skin/surface/structure and the complexity of boundary definers, tectonic values and circulation areas.

Starting from the study of reference objects, we will identify particular relationships between form and performance, followed by a series of dynamic analyses that would define strategies for form optimization. Using the resultant geometry information as a driver, students will digitally model and modify the original profiles to satisfy the requirements of two architectural applications that will vary in scale.

Monday, December 15, 2008

50-X Ratio_Voronoi Skin Formations

Romero
The following diagrams show the geometric generation of voronoi systems from its basic level to a more complex one.



Study of voronoi systems applied on curved surfaces.

Analysis of curvature to identify efficient zones on the skin that will perform successfully to the structural supports. The green areas indicate those zones.

Study of relationship between skin and structural supports (green areas).



Selection of the structural-supports location on both:the curved voronoi grid of the skin and the planar voronoi surface of the ground.



Juxtaposition of planes by means of structural supports based on triangulation.






Diagram showing the skeleton of the structure based on the voronoi skin and the triangular structure that follows a voronoi geometry as well.






Structure with glass panels emphasizing the organic shape of the voronoi skin.















Structural module applied to the 50-X Ratio, placed in the Piazza de la Signora, Florence, Italy.












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