DIA Cyber Craft Master Studio

SHE LTE R O PI A Students Niloufar Rahimi Fariza Mayasari Isinsu Agca Tutor Sina Mostafavi Tutor Assistant Adib Khaeez Winter Semester 2019-2020

TABLE OF CONTENT CRAFT INTRODUCTION 01

SITE 02

DESIGN 03

DESIGN DOCUMENTATION 04

FURTHER EXPLORATION 05

01|1 MUQARNAS 01|2 ORNAMENTATION 01|3 CRAFT EXPLORATION

02|1 PROPOSED SITES 02|2 APPROACH 02|3 CHALLENGES 02|4 ALLEPO

03|1 STORY 03|2 MACRO 03|3 MESSO 03|4 MICRO

04|1 PLAN 04|2 SECTION

05|1 CRITIC

ABSTRACT Shelteropia is located in a war-torn city in Syria. While the project is adapted to a very specific urban junction in Aleppo, the architectural research behind the project on building craft methods goes beyond the geographic coordinates of the region. Therefore, Shelteropia explores and provides a materialization system for the application of Muqarnas in freeform architectural configurations.

More than being ornaments, Muqarnas is a form of vaulting system which allows for the topological and geometric transition from walls to domes.

The transitions from rectilinearly to curvilinearity result in complex surface qualities and volumetric tectonics. In Digital modeling, this can be translated to means of computing multidirectional voxelized volumes or tessellated surfaces.

Shelteropia is craft hub located in a war-torn city in Syria. While the project is adapted to a very specific urban junction in Aleppo, the architectural research behind the project on building craft methods goes beyond the geographic coordinates of the region. Therefore, Shelteropia explores and provides a materialization system for the application of Muqarnas in freeform architectural configurations.

More than being ornaments, Muqarnas is a form of vaulting system which allows for the topological and geometric transition from walls to domes. The transitions from rectilinearly to curvilinearity result in complex surface qualities and volumetric tectonics. In Digital modeling, this can be translated to means of computing multidirectional voxelated volumes or tessellated surfaces. On the one hand, learning from various techniques of typologies of Muqarnas, and on the other hand, by exploring and developing different methods of voxelization, tessellation and folding, the Shelteropia rethink the application of Muqarnas in the post-war city of Aleppo with the purpose of redefining the role of ornament in the era of contemporary industrial revolutions.

MUQARNAS

MUQARNAS “MUQARNAS” is a form of ornamented vaulting in mostly Islamic context countires which other types of ornamentation like sculpture or human bodies painting are forbiden, sometimes called “honeycomb vaulting” or “Stalactite vaulting” The purpose of muqarnas is to create a smooth, decorative zone of transition in an otherwise bare, structural space This structure gives the ability to distinguish between the main parts of a building, and serve as a transition from the walls of a room into a domed ceiling Muqarnas architecture is featured in domes, halfdome entrances, iwans and apses

ARCHITECTURAL REFRENCES

CREATION OF MUQARNAS

TYPES

TILE

BRICK

WOOD

PLASTER

PERFORMANCES

ORNAMENTATION

EXPLORATION

CRAFT COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTATION

CRAFT COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTATION 2D recursive patterning to 3D Stalactite formation | Anemone looping system

CRAFT COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTATION 2D recursive patterning to 3D Stalactite formation | 2d patterning with parakeet

CRAFT COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTATION 2D recursive patterning to 3D Stalactite formation | 2d patterning with parakeet

CRAFT COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTATION 2D recursive patterning to 3D Stalactite formation |

SITE SELECTION

SITE SITE SELECTION| MOST VARIETY IN THIS CRAFT

GRANADA TURKEY ALLEPO SPAIN ISTANBUL SYRIA

CAIRO EGYPT

TURKESTAN KAZAKESTAN

ESFAHAN IRAN

WHY Site has been selected based on the craft so-called “Muqarnas�, the data base of this craft help to find out where this craft has the most popularity and as it was an ornamental craft, we decided to see how through ornamentation which was always a way to devlop a royal architectural concept, we can pick other direction on the functionality of a building an see it as a way to develop an architecture for after crisis areas through both function and ornamentation.

CRAFT

DIGITAL TURN

POST CRISIS AREA

NEW LEVEL OF DETAILS

ALEPPO

SITE ALEPPO | 2009

SITE ALEPPO | 2016

SITE SITE LOCATION| ALEPPO NEW CITY

OLD CITY

SITE SITE LOCATION|

SITE SITE LOCATION| MAIN ROADS ACCESSIBILITIES

MACRO

MACRO FORM FINDING GROUND LEVEL TO UNDER GROUND| ENTRANCE

MACRO FORM FINDING GROUND LEVEL TO UNDER GROUND| ENTRANCE

MACRO FORM FINDING GROUND LEVEL TO UNDER GROUND| ENTRANCE

MACRO FORM FINDING BUBBLE DIAGRAM TOURIST + PUBLIC

REFUGEES

PRIVATE SUNKEN SPACE

RESIDENTIAL

EXHIBITION

CRAFT LAB

PUBLIC SUNKEN AREA

CRAFT WORKSHOP

ADMIN OFFICE

PRODUCTION ROOM

AUDITORIUM

MACRO ZONING

MACRO PROGRAM

C

B

MACRO PLAN

A’

C’

B’

A

MACRO Circulation

MESO

FORM FINDING MESO SCALE SYMMETRICAL VAULT

FREE FORM VAULT

FORM FINDING MESO SCALE

Recursive Segmentation Mesh Mashine Technique

Recursive Segmentation Cicle Packing Technique

Recursive Segmentation Dual Based on Circle Packing Technique

FORM FINDING MESO SCALE EDGED BASED RECURSIVE PATTERN

TESSELATION

INFORMED CELLS

FORM FINDING MESO SCALE

OUTER SURFACE INSIDE SURFACE CREATED BASED ON RECURSIVE PATTERN ON THE SURFACE

TESSELATION

BASED SURFACE

MICRO

DESIGN

CRITIC