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ANTICIPATING SUSPENSE
UNIVERSIDAD VERITAS ESCUELA DE ARQUITECTURA SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA23 APRIL- 11 MAY 2012
Maria Araya. Zaha Hadid ArchitectsHooman Talebi. Zaha Hadid Architects Farshad Mahdizadeh. IaaC
Maria Araya. Zaha Hadid ArchitectsHooman Talebi. Zaha Hadid Architects Farshad Mahdizadeh. IaaC
VISITING WORKSHOP
As one of the most visited countries in Central America and as the country with the largest percentage of protected areas in the world, Costa Rica attracts over two million tourists per year with ecotourism embracing challenging topographies and leisure. Inspired by the lightness and artisanal construction of existing local canopies and their responsive behaviour resulting from the interaction between structure, user and environment, this three week workshop explores new alternatives for suspended and adaptable systems of primary connectivity.
During the first part of the workshop, material systems with the embedded intelligence to perform in suspension and respond to transformative external forces used as parameters informing the design were researched. The fragile equilibrium between exploitation and exploration of the rainforest as a self-organising (eco) system was analysed. In the second part, we built four working prototypes making use of the latest fabrication technologies available. We exercised computational methods of design and fabrication that reinterpreted local techniques and crafts.
Based on the symbiotic relationship between the design principles of Geometry, Materiality and Technique our team of 35 students ranging from design studio 2 to thesis level initially explored 10 different suspension systems. Each team approaching the research through one of these principles and evolving the different projects into performative systems with a unique and coherent relationship between Geometry, Materiality and Technique. These 10 proposals merged into 3 systems that were further developed and prototyped in real scale in the actual rainforest and a 4th experiment capturing the highly complex behaivour of dynamic flow engines through actual physical studies extending beyond computational simulations.
During the first part of the workshop, material systems with the embedded intelligence to perform in suspension and respond to transformative external forces used as parameters informing the design were researched. The fragile equilibrium between exploitation and exploration of the rainforest as a self-organising (eco) system was analysed. In the second part, we built four working prototypes making use of the latest fabrication technologies available. We exercised computational methods of design and fabrication that reinterpreted local techniques and crafts.
Based on the symbiotic relationship between the design principles of Geometry, Materiality and Technique our team of 35 students ranging from design studio 2 to thesis level initially explored 10 different suspension systems. Each team approaching the research through one of these principles and evolving the different projects into performative systems with a unique and coherent relationship between Geometry, Materiality and Technique. These 10 proposals merged into 3 systems that were further developed and prototyped in real scale in the actual rainforest and a 4th experiment capturing the highly complex behaivour of dynamic flow engines through actual physical studies extending beyond computational simulations.
FAB U lous MID+
This proposal explores spatiality through a light and adaptable suspended system of minimal surfaces generated by strategically interweaving and overlapping over 10,000.
Six pack ring components. The different weaving and overlapping techniques embed thematerial with intelligence and performance and allow it to reconfigure in real-time to userinteraction. The emergent formations under tension transform the otherwise discarded plastic into an elegantly differentiated seamless environment that renders the raw material unrecognizable...obsoletely FAB U lous.
Daniel Albujar/ Melissa Corrales/ Mauricio Elizondo/ Cristina Guell/ Chereth Hines/ Ingrid Ling/ Jonatan Luna/ Sara Mena/ Samantha Montoya/ Maria Jose Ramirez/ Montserrat Sala/ Isabel Segura/ Andrea Sibaja.
Six pack ring components. The different weaving and overlapping techniques embed thematerial with intelligence and performance and allow it to reconfigure in real-time to userinteraction. The emergent formations under tension transform the otherwise discarded plastic into an elegantly differentiated seamless environment that renders the raw material unrecognizable...obsoletely FAB U lous.
Daniel Albujar/ Melissa Corrales/ Mauricio Elizondo/ Cristina Guell/ Chereth Hines/ Ingrid Ling/ Jonatan Luna/ Sara Mena/ Samantha Montoya/ Maria Jose Ramirez/ Montserrat Sala/ Isabel Segura/ Andrea Sibaja.
STRWCTURE TRES
Parametric design if often related to a rigid, digitalised creation process that responds.
To certain predefined parameters that, under certain circumstances, behave differently. Starting from a rather basic thought development, Srawcture brings together both human defined parameters and systemised responsive behaviour. As a result of an extensive and systematic research over a three week period on the behavior between a simple straw structure and elastic strings, Strawcture demonstrates the fundamental principles behind a manually fabricated parametric design that can adapt and react upon climatic changes such as rainfall.The system originates from a single, self-sustained and independent module that when multiplied and connected upon themselves, adapt with each other and react in an individual yet holistic manner.
Melania Escalante, Raymond Quesada, Jimmy Barrantes, Emily Hernandez, Roberto Morales, Javier Palma, Carolina Gazel, Andrea Gutierrez, Cesar Coto, Jose Solis, Esteban Araya, Ilian Avila.
To certain predefined parameters that, under certain circumstances, behave differently. Starting from a rather basic thought development, Srawcture brings together both human defined parameters and systemised responsive behaviour. As a result of an extensive and systematic research over a three week period on the behavior between a simple straw structure and elastic strings, Strawcture demonstrates the fundamental principles behind a manually fabricated parametric design that can adapt and react upon climatic changes such as rainfall.The system originates from a single, self-sustained and independent module that when multiplied and connected upon themselves, adapt with each other and react in an individual yet holistic manner.
Melania Escalante, Raymond Quesada, Jimmy Barrantes, Emily Hernandez, Roberto Morales, Javier Palma, Carolina Gazel, Andrea Gutierrez, Cesar Coto, Jose Solis, Esteban Araya, Ilian Avila.
F(r)ICTION HNRS2
F(r)ICTION is the physical description of the force exerted between two surfaces in contact with each other.
Utilizes this concept along with an overlapping technique to create an intelligent load bearing system.While inate the system lyes horizontally, however when a load is applied its interlocked members fan out in order to allow a change at the anchor points from 180 degrees to 150 degrees reducing said load more than 5 times over. Essentially as the system opens and its section becomes smaller while the system becomes increasingly resistent via the multiplyng vectors principle, thus challenging conventional structural logic.
Nicole Guislain, Rolando Madrigal, Silvia Mora, Silvia Gallegos.
Utilizes this concept along with an overlapping technique to create an intelligent load bearing system.While inate the system lyes horizontally, however when a load is applied its interlocked members fan out in order to allow a change at the anchor points from 180 degrees to 150 degrees reducing said load more than 5 times over. Essentially as the system opens and its section becomes smaller while the system becomes increasingly resistent via the multiplyng vectors principle, thus challenging conventional structural logic.
Nicole Guislain, Rolando Madrigal, Silvia Mora, Silvia Gallegos.
ANTICIPATING SUSPENSEVISITING WORKSHOP. SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA.
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