Swisster sticks

Swiss-ster Sticks

Architectural Association | Emergent Technologies & Design ETH Science City Pavilion | Presentation - 14 January 2011

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

The brief calls for a sheltering structure at the ETH Science City campus to extend the existing outdoor seating area. The space is to be used for lunches and as an outdoor study area over the summer months.

The site is a large open courtyard surrounded by modernist buildings, with several green areas, a reflecting pool and crossing paths connecting the campus N to S and E to W. We see the primary task of such a structure as providing shading and a sense of semi-enclosure for people, alone or in groups, to feel comfortable sitting, eating, conversing and/or reading.

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Site - Existing Seating Area & Surrounding Buildings

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

A

B

The pavilion should also be sited on a green space in adjacency to the existing outdoor canteen seating. The green should have ample unshaded space which will be activated by the presence of the new structure.

Options A and B (to left) both are adjacent to the canteen seating. Option A has the advantage of more unshaded open space as well as proximity to the reflecting pool.

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Site - Green Space & Reflecting Pool

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

A

Option A also offers the opportunity to create an additional path on which to situate the new structure affording connections directly to the canteen from the north side of the campus.

However the structure may want some more privacy from the main walk so users don’t feel “on display”.

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Site - Hardscapes [Paths & Seating Area]

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolás Villegas Giorgi

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Site - Selection

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

Provide Graduated Shading with Dappled Light

Activate Surrounding Green Space

Blurred Boundaries of Interior/Exterior

The site is a large open courtyard surrounded by modernist buildings, with several green areas, a reflecting pool and crossing paths connecting the campus N to S and E to W.

Provide Graduated Shading with Dappled Light

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Swiss Vernacular Construction

Program, Spacial and Experiential Goals

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

Use timber boards (in standard sizes) taking advantage of the linear fibre nature of the material.

Create curved surfaces with these linear members by applying simple repetitive rules for transformations.

All connections will be hidden and by their placement should guide assembly.

Architectural Association | Emergent Technologies & Design ETH Science City Pavilion | Presentation - 14 January 2011

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Fabrication and Assembly Logic

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

Iterations are shown here from an initial Grasshopper script whereby a generating component is copied and rotated around two axes. The output form is changed by: - changing the generating part - moving the location of the rotation axis - moving the location of the generating part in relation to the rotation axis.

More parameters would be needed to guide the script to accommodate for the various requirements of the program.

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Iterations

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

1. Initial Component [Parent]

2. Copy, Scale, Stack [Child]

3. Move Child

5. Copy, Rotate Both Parent & Child

6. Move New Pair

7. Repeat

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System Rules

4. Rotate Child

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

Shade Canopy Horizontal Growth

Inhabitable Space Vertical Growth

Loose Spiral Members Scale

Tight Spiral No Scaling

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Differentiated Growth

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

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Assembly

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

3.8 m

13 m

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Plans + Elevations

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

Pin connections provide the proper angles to guide assembly.

60 x 160 Timbers, Processed 3 Sides, 1 Side with Bark On

Members begin to intersect at 2800mm AFF. At this point a steel joint detail will lock the assembly together.

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Joint Detail - Thorncrown Chapel, Arkansas - Fay Jones

Details

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

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View to Relecting Pool

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

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View from View Path to Overlooking Relecting Pool Relecting Pool

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

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Proposal in Situ

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

1. Rotate boards to take advantage of fibre orientation.

2. Use structural analysis to inform script growth - ie... adapt spiral degree and width/ thickness of boards to respond to stress in the structure.

3. Use massing of components to better differentiate spacial qualities - ie... more open on the east and closed to the west, encouraging connection to the water while providing more privacy from the main walk.

4. Move the growth points towards centre and so that canopy support structures begin to provide more separation of spaces than currently achieved.

5. Work on lightening density of canopy to achieve better lighting results.

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Further Development

Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi

Thanks.

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Andy VanMater | Darrick Borowski | Ivan Ucros Polley Jens Pedersen | Maria Tiliakos | Nicolรกs Villegas Giorgi