...and two more

final images

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Final Tests/Angle

fecking tentacles....

mesh1,mesh2.

test.test.

1 out of 6 pods

membrane not present

structural mesh is present

hanging around happily...

modeling touchup will be totally necessary. unfortunately...

Vines..emerging...

year 2072...fire and life safety codes are abolished...

Test Renders

Some render tests.....improving echa time more...

Test Render without Ground

no vines yet... cleaning up geometry first as file is really REALLY heavy.

curl

testicle scri... o i mean tentacle script .....

!!!Script Sharing!!!

Hey guys,


I've re-edited this script to query for the number of output network connection curves from an input of 2 curves.


Basically, it makes connections between 2 curves that you draw on your site (they could be your circulation paths/wind path/solar path etc etc)

Circulation Curves on Site Circulation Network derived from Circulation Curves

Creating more network connections

The cool thing is that this creates points which you can create a MeshfromPoints.

The script is here:

http://www.esnips.com/doc/4a8744e6-2bfa-4246-ad30-acfad7a28814/Curve-Networks

The sleeping pavilion

The sleeping pavilion
The mist of cloud, the smell of tropical rainforest will emerge as soon as the mist wall expose to the visitor.
Natural landscape emerge as an artificial urban infrastructure covering the city living’s cell.
The use of existing urban fabric and infrastructure as a scaffold for the pavilion nest, the swirls allow the circulation defining the undefined borders between the existing and the intervention, exterior and interior, deliver the natural landscape atmosphere to the congested artificial urban fabric.
The urban intervention not to mean as a neutralizer of the existing urban fabric, but to define the urban block as an integrated structure.
The pavilion intended to act as a shelter and an urban artificial retreat.
While the existing structure provides the nest for the new pavilion, the new intervention will act as a scaffold for the old structure to grow old largely.

Narrative

During the US Prohibition, nightclubs went underground as illegal speakeasy bars owned by the “mafia” and ruled by political interests. Al Capone, Mickey Cohen, Johnny Dio, John Gotti and Frank Costello dominate the nightlife scene. Gangsters used “bars” in order to discuss political aspects and business.

On 1933 the prohibition was finished and nightclubs in New York revived. Stork Club, El Morocco and Copacabana became famous places where politicians took their discourse. Few decades after the disco era took the magic and essence of partying. Studio 54 became the predilection place for celebrities, wealthy, aristocrats and politicians. Nevertheless nightclubs for this time became known for being hedonist places. Rampant promiscuity, public sex and massive quantities of drugs ingested in clubs.

The only aspect that has last through history at nightclubs is the political discussions. Nevertheless most of the clubs in the city don’t have ideal spaces to protect privacy discourse. Policlub (Political Club) at Howard St and Broadway emerges based on 3 principles: privacy (political discussions), security and freedom of speech.

The club is composed by three main pavilions: the dancing floor, bar - booth seating and the VIPS (political and regular). The political VIPS (4) are located in a secure place where the access is limited and controlled. In the other hand regular VIPS (4) face the dancing floor and their level of privacy isn’t so high.

The dancing floor and the booth seating are the core of the project surrounded by the VIPS and service areas. The skin of the project is a honeycomb (hexagons) mesh. Each pavilion is characterized by a different surface geometry and scale of the mesh. In order to hierarchy and characterize spaces hexagons change dimensions. Greater scale meshes to large spaces and vice versa. The Dancing floor envelops shape (cone) works as a thermo siphon cooling the air. This means hot air is vacuumed by a process of air pressure.

w.e.i.r.d

Sam emerged from the subway, exhausted from the work. In the distance, he saw the weird thingy again. Somehow, it looked different from what it was before in the morning.

He remembered that he was dreadfully late for work and decided to take the shortcut through the block on Washington Avenue. To his surprise, he found some membranous 'vines' blocking his path. He was too pressed for time, having been late twice already this week, so he ambled on, peeling through the foliage. He found that there was some peculiar order to the mess that he was in, some vines were in fact firm and rooted to the ground, whilst the others moved with his touch.

Now, passing through from the other entrance, the experience seemed totally different again, and while he was meandering around inside, he bumped into many people and talked to more strangers than he had ever had before.

It was a very bizaare, but interesting experience.

And, this was also how he met Sally.

Narrative

The Underground above the Ground.

In a Future not so far away……….

In the Garment District when the evening begins, on the corner of 29th street and 6th avenue a group of strangers standing on the sidewalk are laughing and talking about the world that rejects them. These strangers are the center of attraction of all the people walking by, which are staring at them surprised for the unsusual garments that they are wearing. Suddenly, after the sound of a siren they dissapear into the dark 29th street, leaving no traces to follow them. But after a few minutes, the dark 29th street turns into a colorful display of lights spreading all over the street inviting the people to walk into an unusual and new building that was not there a few hours earlier. On each side of the building, extended elevated ramps invites the pedestrians to walk inside leaded by the curiosity, the sounds and lights that are displayed from the center of this mysterious building. As they approach into the core of the building, they start to wonder about a strange event that is going on below them. They see people cheering to a group of contestants walking on a runway dressed with exuberant and colorful garments. These garments looks familiar, like if they were have been exhibit during the day on that same street.
A few minutes later after they carefully observed, they start to understand how Fashion and this underground culture are now settled down in a place where they combined together without knowing the potential and qualities in which they are connected. On the 29th street of the Garment District stands a building with an unpredictable function and form. During the day it exhibits the Fashion Culture on the busy streets of the Fashion District by diplaying fancy and exuberant garments. But at night the building takes off his mask and changes his outfit, becoming a place where the Ball Culture emerges wearing the garments that were displayed during the day. Selected cross-dressed competitors will compete to display a moment of “realness”, a realness that has been hidden in the underground for decades.

While at night people from everywhere comes to this camouflaged place to watch, to question and to support the mysterious and obscure underground culture, during the day the building will give a push forward to the significance and potential of the Garment District.

new images

narrative

“The ordinary practitioners of the city life are walkers whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an
urban “text” they write without being able to read it.”
M. De Certeau
The recent advances in technology and subsequent ever increasing notion of human separation from
reality (and from each other) call for a new type of architecture which aims to gently reintroduce a
basic experience of interaction.
Traditionally an urban public square was designed to intermix people and different activities thus
achieving coincidental behavior and blending of social landscape in the city. The programmatical
open- endedness of a space provoked speculation and fantasy.
Today the physicality of urban square competes with virtual public spaces where dematerialized
encounters with strangers make up for real contacts.
Situated in the heart of West Chelsea the proposed Pavilion claims to have no programmatic destination
challenging the users to compose their own experience throughout the site by co-sensing and co-
creating new reality.
The pavilion aims to serve as an instrument of discovering different patterns of interaction of emergent
behavior of different groups of urban players with statics of conventional use of public spaces.
The formal qualities of the pavilion elements aim to provoke formation of different nodes of activities
and interlacing of different activities, and stress the tension created by opposing open and closed
spaces.

"Wild: past participle of to will, self-willed"

-Thoreau



the building does not belong to you. it does not concern itself with
your needs, your wants, your hopes.  it is offended by any
pre-classified notion of what you think it should be or could be.  it
has no desire to conform to any defined or suggestive program: bizarre,
normal or any combination of the two.  it assumes that any predetermined
notion of how you will inhabit the space will only contribute to a
diminished experience.

rather, it more generally seeks to evoke deep within you a passion for
its wild nature.  the kind of wild that frees your mind and ignites
ideas.  instead of falling into cycles of recreated experiences, the
building assumes that through the sensations of its behavior you will
generate new ideas about the external world that spark spontaneous
reflection and innovation.

sprawled along vertical surfaces of the urban landscape, the building
reaches for stable soil below while bracing itself against existing
infrastructure and its cousin structures inhabiting the same site.
overwhelmed by the heat of the city, the building desperately opens its
pores in anticipation of the coming rain.

the rain collects in the pockets of its skin.  when the weight of the
water becomes too great, the building drops the excess, keeping just
what it needs to stay cool until the next rainfall.  In contrast to the
droplets of water continuously released from the clouds above, the
building releases water from its surfaces less frequently and in greater
volume, creating a storm of a different scale.

this storm within a storm is one example of how the building amplifies
the experience of natural phenomena, illuminating the subtle but
incredibly wild qualities of the world we inhabit; qualities that have
increasingly become hidden to us by modern development and a growing
industrial society.

.narrative.2.parasitic camouflage

as a camouflaged pavilion that exists in a parasitic nature, it aims to provide a spatial experience that does not have a clear threshold, but rather, a gradient of shifts.

this emergence of shifts will become more apparent when the user fully immerse, imbed, and integrate with the pavilion.

the habitual behaviour(s) and personalities of a camouflage, parasitic pavilion

1.     adaptive chameleonesque skin membrane that would blur the boundary of surroundings and its visual existence

2.     parasitical existence exhibits an keen awareness of efficiency and sustainability, where its mere survival and continued presence will demand sacrifice and an continuous adaptive evolution of all parts

3.     sound sensory phenomenon will be suppressed to enhance and broaden other sensories.

Narrative..: : : .. : . : . :.

2058: All new construction is prohibited. The only construction allowed is for the advancement the green religion. Reasons for this are many but it stems from the revolution of the green movement in 2010. When the popular leaders (Al Gore), of the green movement were exposed by the leftist green anarchists as capitalizing on the environmental problems, the radical groups took over the movement. The state at the time allowed for only wealthy individuals to benefit and be “guilt free” by being able to purchase things like carbon credits, local foods, and hybrids. To appeal to the majority, green anarchists stopped using criminal and violent tactics. They settled on advocating a non-violent dismantling of capitalism and the state, and focusing on the collective ownership of production. The reason for this was because the capitalist system was proven to be the cause of social exclusion, poverty, and environmental degradation. Eco- Socialism was adopted by the general population. Eventually this philosophy was turned into a lifestyle and a set of beliefs becoming a religion.

This religion became a critique of Judeo-Christian’s anthropocentric beliefs. It evolved to incorporate the Pagan idea that regards nature as sacred and humanity part of nature. The temple used by followers of this religion is a built representation of the philosophies practiced by the religion. It is a parasitic urban community garden that feeds off the already built environment. It evolves traditional ideas of excess and exuberance of churches into a structure that feeds off the excess of other buildings.

These churches create a new idea of landscape by viewing landscape through the idea of carbon absorption. Based on urban heat island effects and surrounding landscape, the planting of trees is done accordingly to supplement the existing landscape in mitigating carbon emissions. Placed every other block or so throughout the city where possible, each church is non hierarchical and functions as its own independent entity. Elevated from the ground level, it is a solution for the scarcity of space in the area. The benefits of introducing urban agriculture into this area would not only be environmental but provide awareness, and recreational value.

As storied New York community gardener Adam Honigman puts it: "Community gardening is 50% gardening and 100% local political organizing". Community gardens are more than a meeting ground — they are also a training ground for political empowerment. The garden is partly made from bamboo. The structure is made from a grown material, the same way the garden produces material for consumption to keep the environmental loop closed.