final boards

here is what we call the flow chart of the system we have been working on for the last two weeks. the quality isn't so good any more, as it has to be ploted on 3 a0, i had to compressed it be abble to show it to you this way, sorry ... cheers

hut attack

last image of our presentation, here is a global view of the project. thanks to mich heynick for his help and rhino5.b 64 ...

dragon section

yo, here is one of the sections we made through our final proposal, a hut for hunters in austria ...

updated deck chair

since we build this 1 to 1 scale model we have been working a lot about specific densification of the grid and types of scales. here is a picture of the last statement of the model just in front of the " atelier maquette " of the school.

ergonomics

ones we had this shape we started to deform it according to different shooting positions we founded importent

raw shape

to be abble to crate two different stairs, one interior and the second exterior, we trurned the torus on itself and palyed we his sichness. here is the first chape we created.

hut concept

as the title " hunting in austria " suggest it, the programm we chosed to test our system's capabilities is a hut for hunters. we chosed the torus as basic form basicaly for structural reasons. as a context we chosed a forest boundary with an empty area direct next to it.

scales types

one more page of the slide show, about the scales that we used for differents reasons (rigidification of the basic grid, waterproofing, sun protection).

basic grid

hey, here is one of the first slide of the presentation we made for the final review which took place on last friday. structural layer of our project, the wood grid is basicaly composed singular elements.

deck chair for sale

that's done ... completly hand made, here is our brand new deck chair. a couple of elements just explode during the job, but every thing is finaly ok.

deck chair

yo, here is a rendering of the deck chair we planed to build as a demonstration of our system. the green part is actualy supposed to be polypro. hard job to come ...

abstract interior view

strange atmosphere, we thought this hut as a temporary refuge creating an particularly abstract space in a hostile environment.

material system constraints

yo, this is how we thought controlling the deformation of the wood elements of our grid. these heights and angles limits should ideally constrain the form or in any case the distribution of elements on it.

materialization of the grid

in order to construct the grid with which we have been working for several months and reduce the size of the elements it made of, we adopted a simple system. so each element participates in three nodes and two of them meet in the middle of an element located on an axis perpendicular to their.

formatting of the hut

once the program is set up, the envelope of the hut pack schematic volumes.

program implementation

after selecting a location, we had to find a strategy for the organization of program elements. following a detailed analysis of the field, we placed schematically the heliport and the hut according importance to the slope.

architectural element 04

working with a simple and lowtech system, we also try to create deformations to make it capable of produce shadow. guiding some elements, we are also abble to guide views.

architectural element 03

to furnish we also try to create furniture as here a table.

architectural element 02

we also tried to solve the problems of contact with the ground.

architectural element 01

to continue, we quickly thought about how our system could basically deform itself to create architectural elements such as a door.

open systems sin(wave) pavilion

hi, one more blog we had a look on ...
their grid is interesting but seems to be stuck in a planar development. what we are on trying to do and that caused us many problems is to introduce and work with torsion in the wood elements.

curvature analysis

in search of an extra parameter to select the site even more precisely, we were interested in the curvature of the field at our disposal to find in addition to the horizontal and the sunshine, a place where the change of slope is quick and where it is possible to huddle.

slope analysis

then, we chose to analyze the slope of the terrain we had. now in search of a place as horizontal and sunny as possible we worked with a card like this one.

rechercher

representative sunshine

ok, as we are supposed to set up an alpine hut, we were also interested in the selection criteria of site ... from a fictional land we started by producing a detailed analysis of the representative sunshine of the 4 seasons that we then grouped on a single card.

the twisted pipe _ one more wood grid

yo, looking for inspiration we had a look on this blog last time ...

another approach as ours, interesting though that the grid set up is extremely regular.

pizza slicing

i lost my knife, is huang's studio laser cutter big enough to cut my family size pizza ?! have a break, check that quick ...

magnetic displacement & rheotomic surfaces

an other video about what we tried to create last month with renaud as we were working on grid deformation.
our researches are now also based on things like this one. rheotomic surfaces seam to be interessent tools to play in a special way with the relationship between in and out spaces.

deployable / transformable structures

hi guys, here is a special dedication to you working about popop. have a look on this video about deployable / transformable structures. funny inspiration ...

digital design & production

here is a block of foam victim of a milling job exercise. that was the first time i used a milling machine... realy impressive to produce such a thing only using keyboard and mouse.

physical model 03

hi guys... we finaly build a physical model with some trosion in the plywood elements; maybe to much torsion. some of the finest ones just explode during the first manipulations of the assemblied model.

effect of the day

here is the skin effect produced by there space pavilion. "quiet interessent, isn't it ?!"

inspiration of the day

just have a look on this funny space pavilion. using plywood without any torsion they were abble to create this blubby shape.

physical model 02

here is a picture of the effect we're playing with. depending of the density of elements thickness of the "panels" becomes more or less important.

physical model 01

here are few plywood piecies whose geometry is directly based on the parametric grasshopper rhino model.

rhinoceros modeling

two parallel explorations about plywood elements deformations (left without / right witht torsion)

material system - evolution

still on working to combine plywood and textil ... here is something which could be a "sandwich" textil/plywood/textil. (in the model the strings are supposed to symbolize the textile)

material system researches

combining plywood and textil we are on trying drive all the compression through wood pieces and to fix the system using textil working in traction.

parametric articulation

back again, here are few prt sc of a simple parametric model we've made with processing unsing the oog gallery. we were interested on understanding what could append in such an articulation as the rules and conditions were depending of material properties. ( 60° <> new panel ; two consecutive 60° angles => panel remove).

rotary cutter

hi guys, we finaly find a scheme "describing" the big machine peaple have to use to be able to produce the extremely thin and long sheet of wood, base material of certain types of plywood. called rotary cutter, it's a kind of enormous peeler turning around portions of trunks...

terminator'll be back

greetings fabulous world of the Internet... back from very long and tiring holidays, i'm this semester again part of the fascinating experience framed by dr. huang and his essential team. this time we will work more about thickness and material potentials.

here are the boards are produced for the final review last semester as we were working on the theme of organicites.

processing prtsc

one more picture of what i finaly manage to script in processing. it's a part of wall, orange areas are windows.

sketches

here are some sketches of sectons, it should be easyer to understand with.

interspersed surfaces

hey, here is a picture of a model i made to illustrate my last researches. always using sequences, i am on truying to combine two of them to design schematis wall sections.

undulating surface

always using the same sequence, i tried to create what could become a facade.

tortuous faults

second thing i tried to do, could be an islet or a floor...

funny bricks

hey, here is one of the things i worked about always using the sequences i defined.

l systems definition

yo, i just forgot to give what could be a definition of l systems...

"an l system is a formal grammar most famously used to model the growth processes of plant development, though able to model the morphology of a variety of organisms. l systems can also be used to generate self-similar fractals such as iterated function systems..."
source : wikipedia

thanks michael hansmeyer

michael hansmeyer uses l systems growth processes for architectural design, just have a look on his web site, realy nice...

thanks astrid lindenmayer

so much f**king things to do but i finaly manage to find few houres to work about our 5# assignement. my l modules became l systems and using the course reader p236 and web sites i'm on trying to unterstand first of all how it work and how it could help me for the studio.

janga tower

yo, just find there what an example of could a tower build with the floors i defined looking like.

sequences defenition

using the shaps i defined, i tried to find a representative sample of sequences which could be used to buid my slabs. then i attributed hich sequence a code to be able to sort them.

taxonomie style

hi there, steel working with l modules i tried to define slabs shape using modular transformations.

l islet

here is one more picture of the same configuration.

l modules aggregation

hey there, here is a picture i've made for the third assignement. stacking l modules, i tried to create a map as an aggregation of towers. one more time, there's a lot of randomness in my script...