2012 Digital Architecture Laboratory Summer Workshop: Articulated Surface
The summer workshop 2012 of the “Digital Architecture Laboratory” (DAL) chose the
atrium of the School of Architecture of Hunan University, Changsha, to set the general
framework for an installation which catalyses the potential of articulated surfaces.
Students of nine groups were briefed to propose a design that activates the
unemployed atrium space. After having analyzed the current deficiencies of the atrium,
a series of 1:1 scale design mock-ups helped the groups to adjust and refine their
design proposals as well as encouraged them to consider befitting materials at the early
stage of the design.
非常感谢DAL 2012年夏季训练营将项目介绍和项目图片授权gooood发行。
Appreciation towards 2012 Digital Architecture Laboratory Summer Workshop
for providing the following description:
Project: Articulated Surface(ceiling of hall in the institure of Arch.HNU ) Workshop Tutor: BIAO Hu, YU Du, Johannes ELIAS, XINYU Wan Design Team: WEI Wen, DI Huang, XIAOYU Gao, RUBING Cai, ZHIXIN Li, YIHUAN Xie Construction: DAL Workshop Completion: 08/2012
The atrium space was primarily used as passageway due to its undifferentiated
lightning- and circulation conditions. Aiming to improve the spatial qualities, the winning
group proposed a suspended formation, offering districts of varying shadow-patterns
and light-intensities. In favour of activating the monotonous space, multiple experiments
on the existing site conditions helped adjusting the parameters of every single cell such
as to guarantee contrasted qualities for the atrium’s resting- and circulation areas. The
parameters – i.e. amount of openness, degree of curvature and scale of cells – had an
immediate impact on the overall surface’s articulation, which led to a continuous
feedback process, both fine-tweaking the component’s geometry and amending the
formation’s figuration.
An aluminium composite panel turned out to be the suitable light-weight material of
choice, offering sufficient strength and resistance to torsion as well as providing a
gradual quality of reflectivity, prior to wood, PVC-panels, plastic, steel and cardboard,
which were all tested, by prototyping the cell in real.
Utilising state-of-the-art parametric software as well as rapid-prototyping tools, the
manufacturing process was streamlined, by even proliferating each joint’s detail
digitally. Students were fully engaged in the manufacturing process which provided a
close-up view of how digital design turns into reality.
As the purpose of organising the annual DAL-workshops is to bring the overall evolution
of parametric design and construction closer to students, DAL’s 2012 installation proves
successfully that such approaches, today, are integral in finding solutions for the
Architecture of the 21st Century, which is constantly asking for higher degrees of
complexity. 作者: denghua 时间: 2013-4-22 15:44
沙发！作者: 活建鬼 时间: 2013-4-22 16:13
当时已在gooood里面拜读过了，不知小农兄能否再放些鲜为人知（没登在gooood上的）的过程及体会呢？作者: 忻忻小酷酷~ 时间: 2013-4-22 19:18
留名再细看~作者: thinksong 时间: 2013-4-23 01:29
这个做的真好看。形式很美啊作者: wikii 时间: 2013-4-23 07:42
现在拆除了吗？ 作者: jianzhu2012 时间: 2013-4-23 10:53
{:11:}支持实体模型啊·~作者: silvia0412 时间: 2013-4-23 13:16
对这个训练营很感兴趣~作者: ╰飛絮╮ 时间: 2013-4-23 23:10
很牛逼啊 支持了作者: Argydit 时间: 2013-4-24 00:10
各种大神回来了的节奏么作者: 麓山小农 时间: 2013-4-24 01:56
