01. RE-CURVILINEAR

UCLA AUD Fall 2021-2022

411 Introductory Design Studio

Instructor: Viola Ago

This project aims to explore the synthesis between physical linear origami model and digital curve evolved model. Initially, the physical characteristics of a paper including ductility, elasticity, and plastic deformation were carefully tested and evaluated to evolve the possible geometrical shape on hand, which served as a prototype to further iterate via different digital techniques in rhino such as, rotate, twist, bend, scale, shear and taper. The iterations, portal, wrapper, and comprehensive, are based on the a variety of scale to evoke the hidden potential of the initial origami work and illustrate the author's spatial understanding under a certain architectural pedagogies.

The final design was synthesized and refragmented by the above volume based on the above different-scale iterations, which served as a public beach facility. The envision of the final design is to reconcilled the conflication between magic existing form and general programs. Therefore, Scaling, rotating, tailoring, inserting, and even rebuilding are widely utilized to transform the iterated design shelter to make it suitable for the requirements of a beach facilities. Besides, an extra L-shaped inspired from the portal ground engraving was inserted into the shelter to shell define the wet and dry area of the buildings while it also provided a centralized public transport axis to further derivate the semi-public and private spaces.