B-th

irina bogdan robert thompson

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Dessau International Architecture

winter semester

studio X_algorithmic surface modulations_christos passas

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Living Stadium.

LONDON 2010

DESIGN

CONCEPT

The stadium in the past had an ephemeral functionality. Our initial question inlights of this fact, is how to make a stadium less about the initial function and more to do with engageing and maintaining a constant comunal atmosphere where a facet of activities can be housed.

decomposed bunching algorithm

breaking element

attractor application

This idea seeks to erase the concept of a stadium as a place not just for leasure but as a place for leaving, leasure, bussiness, etc. .

Now the new question is how does the stadium function within this realm and maintains its identity? strategy:

Transforming interest levels into mathematical data, we made conscious asumptions around a programatic platform, then coded our results into specific intensities. These then were able to influence and affect a grid blanketing the site. This fields of lines was then used as a formal technique to articulate the olympic park, the shell and the inner organisation. recombination

gh point based attractor behavior

parametric

INVESTIGATION

GENERATIVE

DIAGRAMS

definining secondary functions

definining secondary functions

functions applied as a force on a grid

GENERATIVE

DIAGRAMS

defining specific attractorbilities of the different supporting functions provided for a way to manipulate a surfaces parameters deforming it in the nature of a landscape.

GENERATIVE

DIAGRAMS

surface generation

lines

surface

stadium form mapped on to surface.

GENERATIVE

DIAGRAMS

attractor defined surface

basic surface geometry

GENERATIVE

DIAGRAMS test 1

test 3

bunching algorithm taken further to define spaces

test 2

test 4

final configuration with spatial elements

extrapolating spaces defined by the line diagrams

GENERATIVE

DIAGRAMS

The defining algorthim for this surface condition was derived from the spatial diagram seeing it as a gravitational element . the idea of creating a double surface, a duplicate of the initially derived surface to house and support the supporting functions in the stadium.

MASTERPLAN

DIAGRAMS

applying the attractor logic to site and landscape

Paths on site

MASTERPLAN

DIAGRAMS

applying the attractor logic to site and landscape

point subdivision of path

resulting grid deformation

SCHEME

MASTERPLAN

resulting supporting program volumes

INTERNAL

VOLUMES

PLAN

FLOOR

garden and skate park

olympic stadium vip + conference shopping and leisure shops and restaurants

business center fan zone

athletes center

pllan of shops and restaruants second floor

FLOORPLAN

ENLARGE

A-A

SECTION

seating canopy

internal spaces

A-A

SECTION

B-B

SECTION

B-B

SECTION

ELEVATION

FRONT

ELEVATION

FRONT

VISUALIZATION

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VISUALIZATION

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VISUALIZATION

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