Project Brief: cereS PAViLioNMohAMMed WAeL fArSAkhArchitecture Studio: Air

the cereS environmental community is located near the Bruns-wick terminal Station. Power Lines run above the site giving this “environmentally conscious community” an industrial presence.

My challenge and aim is to try and create a design that lets the user forget about the Brunswick terminal station, and instead link him to the nature. the Shelter i will create will use light and a mesh pattern to erase the shadows cast by the power-lines and manipu-late more and natural ones.

cereS eNViroNMeNtAL PArkimages obtained from Sydney Morning herald and Melbourne

deSigN deVeLoPMeNt

creating a Lofted Surface with 2 curves

changing the curves to mimic the topography of the Lake

experimenting with the Mesh offsetting the Mesh, ‘grafting’ the two boundaries and creating a solid difference - extruding the New geometrychanging the cell options, Bitmap image, Numbers in cell count + Points equations

extruding the Projected LineworksProjecting the Mesh onto the lofted surface - along the z axis

fABricAtioN & fiNALiziNg the deSigN

icd/itke research Pavilion at the University of Stuttgart

Possible issues of this design with Powder 3d Printing: creating a second Prototype:Larger scale section of the original design

join Mesh SurfacesView Naked edgesjoin edges create 2mm thick Base (for added strength)convert to Meshjoin design Mesh to the Baseexport as StL

At this scale certain vertexes of the base geometry are0.78mm or 1.63mm (2mm Minimum requirement

there were many reasons to that influenced my progression of the design. the primary reason was the lack of structure in the design.

As i began planning fabricating the design, i began to understand the re-quired geometries, widths and spans for the powder 3d printing. to eliminate my issues with the maximum allowed span (1:4) i began experimenting with the lofted surface. After a couple of iterations, i decided to extrude a hex ge-ometry from the Lofted curves. By doing so the light entering the space would cast an interesting shadow as well as it would provide my pavilion with the necessary structure.

WeaverBird was used later on to give the design a solid structure and depth. the extruded wireframe was converted to a mesh and then thickened by the WeaverBird Mesh thickener - this was also done to the hexagonal cells. the thickness of the extruded mesh is slightly wider than that of the hex cells, this was done to add strength to the primary structure as well as add depth and levels to the design.

this pavilion is a small scale project, yet it is meant to serve as a retreat from the industrial power lines running above ceres. the use of shadows was cho-sen to hide the shadows of the overhanging lines and serve as a shell protect-ing the user.

South elevation

Section A

fixed timber hinges for the thick mesh structure

coNNectioNS:

Pin joints attach the hexagon panels to the structure

final render of design in-situ

Pavilion on Site Plan

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MohAMMed WAeL fArSAkhStUdeNt id: 589569