PORTFOLIO Klemens Sitzmann
about Säulengasse 7/11 A-1090 Vienna Austria +43 0699 13293961 +39 349 7788089 klemens.sitzmann@gmail.com www.klmnsstzmnn.eu vimeo.com/klmnsstzmnn Nationality: Italy 22 November 1986
education 30.01.2015
Conferral of the academic degree “Master of Architecture” MArch with distinction at University of Applied Arts Vienna
08-12.2013
Exchange Semester at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles
since 2011
Master of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna – Studio Hani Rashid
2010-2011
Master of Architecture at the Technical University of Vienna
November 2010
Conferral of the academic degree “Bachelor of Science” BSc at TU Vienna
2006-2010
Bachelor of Architecture at the Technical University of Vienna
strengths & interests Driven by curiosity and an enthusiast in self-education. An interdisciplinary thinker with a special interest in our urban and social environment and its processes. Technically extremely versatile with an obsession in precision of shape and data. Strong cross platform working and linking of different softwares. Independent but adaptive worker, A love for graphic representation of architececture and geometry itself
technical skills and competences modelling
Autodesk 3ds Max (excellent knowledge) Autodesk Maya (modelling & animation) Rhino (excellent knowledge) Grasshopper (including plugins like Karamba & Kangaroo) ZBrush (sculpting & texturing) Digital Project V1 (parametric modelling, powercopies) AutoCAD (drafting)
rendering
Vray (excellent knowledge Nuke (color grading, compositing, keying) Adobe Photoshop (excellent knowledge) Adobe Illustrator Adobe After Effects
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work experience 2014 June-September
AECOM Architecture Architecture Intern Design and Visualization
Los Angeles, US
2014 February
Competition with theNextEnterprise Architecture Office Verteilerkreis Favoriten
Vienna, A
2013 May-June
Competition with theNextEnterprise Architecture Office Ă–AMTC Central
Vienna, A
Competition with Asymptote Architecture Architecture design and visualization
Vienna, A
Establishment of klmnsstzmnn.eu self-employed as 3D-artist and visual consultant
Vienna, A
Comfort_Architecten Architecture Office Internship as Design Architect
Bruneck, I
2008-2011
ISOCHROM Architecture visualization office Freelancer 3D-Modelling, Rendering, Post-Production
Vienna, A
2006/07 Summer
Wolfsgruber GmbH Stainless steel and wrought iron products Draftsman and project assistant
Bruneck, I
2005 Summer
Kosta Erich Construction site Worker on construction site
2004 Summer
Studio Ligno Art SRL Planning Office Draftsman
Bruneck, I
2003 Summer
Tischlerei Gruber TĂźren OHG Handcraft business Worker in production, draftsman
Bruneck, I
2013 April since 2013 2012 Summer
St. Lorenzen, I
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Logium i n s t i t u t e : Studio Hani Rashid - Thesis 2015 I n s tr u c t o r : Hani Rashid
This logium investigates the fate of books as physical containers of knowledge in our digital environment. Reflecting on consumption of information and knowledge, it poses the most complete collection of written cultural heritage across centuries and geographical boundaries, all converged in one remote, isolated location. An entity, condensing collective knowledge to physical patterns, under constant flux and rearrangement, it gives shape to a unique space. The logium investigates isolation as method to create an immersive involvement of people with the medium of the book.
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The project is located in Northern Canada, at the Diavik Diamond Mine. The mine was founded in the 1996, and will be in use until 2025. The island works as an entity, atonomous and detached from its surrounding. It already provides an infrastructure with potential for later use. The logium is located in the
main pit, which is has a diameter of 700 m and a volume around 50 million cubic meters. Unlike a typical library, the archive in an universal library takes up much more space which allows for the functions to be embedded within the stacks.
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An entity, condensing collective knowledge to physical patterns, under constant flux and rearrangement, it gives shape to a unique space. Ultimately, an instutiution of our civilization of knowledge and innovation, embracing knowledge and curiosity as drivers for human prosperity.
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The bookstacks are fully automated by a system with two robots. One which revolves around the stacks and a multifunctional robot arm that travels inside the stacks.
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Since the books need to be conserved in very specific boundaries, ever stack has an autonomous climate control system that creates an optimal atmosphere for the contained books.
Together, the book stacks form a 3-dimensional framework that performs as a structural system.
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The arrangement of the book stacks in the archive strongly follow the topography of the pit condition creating a radial system of book stacks with varying heights. The radial system enhances the perception of the pit-geometry and performs as a orientation system for the users.
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The logium is a three-dimensional master plan which embeddes different types of objects in the archive. Those objects float in the bookstacks and allow its users different levels of immersion. Two systems of circulation make the all the books accessible and shape the interior relations.
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The logium hosts different programs. The compound works like an institution, gathering books, restoring, and digitalizing before they enter the archive.
The archive is the rigid space, while there are eventstructures embedded in it. Those objects are very custom shapes to complete the radial system of the archive. The objects are placed
on different heights inside the three-dimensional master plan allowing different levels of immersion to the user.
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Sol Motion i n s t i t u t e : SCI-Arc
Vertical Studio - Fall 2013
i n s tr u c t o r : Peter Testa part n e r s :
Jordan Squires, Gonzalo Padilla Villamizar, Jaegeun Lim
We live in a three dimensional world. Motion in our space is been defined by three degrees of freedom, architecture has evolved through the manipulation of the elements relationship with the space around it. From the point, to the line, to the plane, to the volume, each addition of a coordinate allows architects the construction of geometries. This project seeks to push this further through the addition of a fourth coordinate: time. By using the robotic lab as four dimentional workspace, where movement of an object could be documented, analyzed and embedded into the construction of its geometry. “Sol Motion” uses Sol Lewitt’s series of incomplete cubes as a point of departure, blending from one state to the next, flowing through specific stages. As the elements transition from one stage to the other, a series of sections cut through time and through a process. This method of slit-scanning the process, stitches together an architectural object where the coordinate of time, represented by motion, is embedded to create a physical output that seeks to understand the object as it would position itself in a higher dimensional space. incomplete open cubes - Sol LeWitt 1974
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In physics, motion is a change in position of an object with respect to time and its reference point. Motion is typically described in terms of displacement, direction, velocity, acceleration, and time. Motion is observed by attaching a frame of reference to a body and measuring its change in position relative to that frame. 22
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PostProduction grading and editing of the video-footage applying the slitscan as a digital effect visualization of the output
digital Animation
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pre-animation in digital program like Rhino and Maya setting up the constraints and tools outputting VAL3-files for the robots
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RobotHouse running the animation with VAL3 on the robots filming the movement scanning the movement with dual synchronized kinects adn capturing the data over time
Extraction assembling the data gained from the kinects as a virtual model of the movement creation of a virtual camera and performing a geometrical slitscan to gain a digital model with embedded color information of time as the 4th dimension colored 3D-print of models to showcase the 4D Object
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wikipedia Uber-hq / pre-tesis institute:
dieAngewandte - Studio Hani Rashid - Spring 2014
i n s tr u c t o r : Hani Rashid
The Corporate Headquarter type is under attack. Today with the ever present rise of startups to uber companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and the like we see companies that at one moment are incubating in a warehouse or garage quickly rise from obscurity to reach the summit of corporate culture, and with that they sustain a radical transformation in their approach to the workplace and more importantly the city. These companies are taking over and incising their wayinto the public realm ( virtual and real ) and therefore impacting city space in untold ways. How will these Uber HQ’s change the landscape of dense infrastructure, reclaim the idea of image and prowess, situate themselves as dominant forces of change?
Ramon Marcos Noriega - Calli (1966)
Wikipedia is one of the most accessed websites in the world. It works like a basis-democratic platform for knowledge, many people contribute their part in the mosaic of the worlds most accurate encyclopedia. Inspired by the constraint-driven geometry of typefaces, the aim was to create new geometry based on different interactions and operations between several type of letters. Those artifacts got tested in terms of their spatial qualities and assemble parts of the tower. Every part has its own characteristics and identity. They form a vertical landscape from park avenue and invite users to engage on different levels in the tower.
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part of the semesters task was to integrate structural systems and methods of construction. The structure and facade reflects the concept of the artifacts. Each sector has his unique substructure and facade pattern
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Deep Futures Expo | Re-reading City institute:
Design Studio Fall 2012
Tutor:
Hani Rashid
part n e r s :
Maximin Rieder, Stephan Ritzer
Within our project, we re-read certain urban typologies, from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional state. Our ambition was to re-think on former type categorisations which were determined and defined for an urban layout, relying on cartesian axis of XYZ. Since we see the future city as a spatial cluster which implies no directionality and obligations but rather total connectivity and possibilities, we explored the three-dimensionality of our site, a larva loci, an Archimedean solid called „truncated octahedron“, in following manner: The Hamiltonian Loop hereby serves as a distinctive border between the smooth inside and the rigid outside. Moreover it enabled us to define different zones of program: smooth areas represent a multifunctional shared space, while polygonal spaces contain specifically defined functions.
unfolded octahedron with separation by the hamilton loop
The Hamiltonian Cycle, a mathematical graph theory, became an initial tool to comprehend the given object and a dri-
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ving force within our strategy of optical and physical dissolving the original figure. It allowed us to describe Archimedes’ ob-
ject as a closed graph, visiting each vertex and edge exactly once.
Reducing it to the minimum, we re-built the geometry from the Hamilton Path. The introduction of an inner offset, an abstracted cycle, which becomes volumetric, creating a void space as well, supported our idea of a centrifugal force, free movement and connectivity.
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The folding was one of the most interesting conditions from beginning on. The move from a relativly twodimensional to3 D a threedimensional object showed new developments in terms of proximity and zoning. Also the orientation of certain positions shift. creating a new and intriguing object.
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The void as a fluid shared space grows a new kind of urban neighbourhood, driven by differentiated public spaces on a plurality of heights.
Intensified view relationships, new ways of circulation and gradually changing atmospheres characterize the user’s experience. A novel proximity of of those formerly detached factors generates new spatial relationships.
In conclusion, the prototype demonstrates our principles of a radical three-dimensional urbanism, inducing a diverse “deep future city“.
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ecological ballet institute:
dieAngewandte - Energy Design
tutor:
Bernhard Sommer
part n e r s :
Daniel Prost
As climate and society change, it might not be the smartest way to customice buildings towards local weather conditions and using patterns that might be obsolete within a few decades anyway. An alternative could be to design super-adaptive buildings skins, which can negotiave any indooroutdoor differences. The building skine becomes a transformable, moveable membrane. For a successful contribution to the cultural environment, architectural design has to shift from formal design to the design of movement and behaviour.
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the basis of the pavillon is the kinematic system of Theo Jansen‘s strandbeast. Only one driver performs on the skin. The legs are linked to the central axis, enabeling control over the skins open and closure.
To maintain control and simulate the hierarchy, a complete parametric model of the system was scripted in grasshopper to optimize the visual and kinematic aspects of the pavillon.
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The models where part of a MAK Nite exhibition on 22.10.2013. Under the title „ecological“ ballet, eight group showcased their approach of flexible and dynamic envelopes and their spacial impact. Photos © MAK / Katrin Wißkirchen
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Deep Futures | Arctic Transition institute:
Design Studio Summer 2012
Tutor:
Hani Rashid
part n e r s :
individual project
The summer semester will focus primarily on building design, where the drivers for the works carried out will be primarily those to do with the way we experience perceive and move through architecture.
curvature and reflection analysis
Key words in the studio will be optics phenomena and atmosphere, terms that speak to the notion that architecture is above all else a way of understanding the world around us and the spatiality we create and inhabit. The design, making and embodying of architecture will be the target of the studio and each student will work on an individual building design located on their master plan from last semester.
The introduction assignment was to analyze a mathemathical form, in my case a helicoid, and investigate it in form of optics, phenomena and atmosphere. the form is generated by this functions: x= a*sinh(v)*cos(u) y= a*sinh(v)*sin(u) z= a*(u) (0 ≤ u < 2π, -∞ < v < ∞, 0 ≤ a < ∞) Helicoid minimal surface negative gaussian curvature not developable
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With the production of a phsyical model we tried to match the qualities the mathematical definition o the object gave to us. The atmosphere, optics and phenomena generated by the object was tested under different conditions and environment. These
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the arctic is one of the few areas where humanity could not yet set feet. Due to global warming more area get accesible and liveable in the regions of the polar circles. Offering an enviroment that is under constang change and lighning conditions which are far from normal, the arctic region will defi netly be a area of interest in the future. In fact, the â&#x20AC;&#x17E;raceâ&#x20AC;&#x153; for the arctic has already begun. Considering not Because of the tabula-rasa conditions it offers the possibility to create and test a new kind of organization and building technology.
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Since our City is based a lot on research, my project focusses on how to create a building which emphacizes the transition from cityscape to sea and landscape and vice-versa. The goal was to create a continuous space which gives you different spatial qualities depending on where you are in the building.
People who work and use the space there should get a building which constantly changes due to the different conditions in the environment. The behaviour of the building is the feedback of the outside and materializes that.
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Since our City is based a lot on research, my project focusses on how to create a building which emphacizes the transition from cityscape to sea and landscape and vice-versa. The goal was to create a continuous space which gives you different spatial qualities depending on where you are in the building.
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Digital Design & Production i n s t i t u t e : Editing 4 - Fall 2011 & Summer 2012 Tutor:
Jörg Hugo, Jonathan Asher
part n e r s :
Daniel Zakharyan, Stephan Tomasi
The task was to analyze a traditional Japanese timber joint in order to develop a deep understanding of its geometric specificity. The next step was to translate the main principles into an updated version for the 21st Century as an intriguing sculptural timber primitive. Following principles of addition and variation, we had to develop your primitive parametrically in a way that allows it to adapt to variable local conditions. In the production part, we used CNC manufacturing techniques to produce physical wooden models in the scale 1:1
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Part of the seminar was to develop a parametric model in Digital Project and test it under different conditions. By having to build it a up in that way helped us to understand the constraints and variables of the joint itself to be later able to modify them. Digital Design & Production 59
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Our first reinterpretation of the â&#x20AC;&#x17E;Miyajima spliceâ&#x20AC;&#x153; was to enfhance its structural stability especially towards traction by adding a connecting middlepart. The goal was not just to optimize the original joint but also to bring the aesthetics towards a more 21st century approach. Therefore we decided to make a round profile version of it which brings the very rigid original look to a more smooth one. The play with concave and convex shape and the transition between those was one of our goals.
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We gained a lot of knowledge by producing the first joint and we decided to push it to the next level but still following the constraints and concept of the structural connection. For this one we decided to do not a straight connection, but to develop a multiple star connection. We had to mutate the connecting middle part and also the incoming After the first assembly of the joint we figured out that it gets its best structural stability when all the three parts got connected to each other and form a structural piece of art.
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Rude Form i n s t i t u t e : SCI-Arc
Visual Studies - Fall 2013
I n s tr u c t o r : Anna Neimark part n e r s :
Marta Piaseczynska, Jakob Wilhelmstädter, Jeff Halstead
These drawings explore concepts and analytical tools associated with formalism and archaeology through a close study of some dolmens, or rude stone monuments. Composed of rather large flat stones supported on top of two or more upright ones, they at times define a vague interior. As such, these megalithic formations offer a proto-architectural form for studying representational techniques of measurement, regulatory geometry, annotation, line work, and shade & shadow. Each drawing establishes a syntactic system to describe a set of otherwise opaque objects.
Formwork, which focuses on a close analysis of the assigned masses from touristic photographs, archaeological surveys, and other archival miscellany through tactical measurement and digital modeling. The volumetric studies of these post and beam formations help to identify the posture and inclination of both â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the load bearing vertical and the reclining horizontal stones. The second part, Analogous Object, then is used to help translate the formal ordering characteristics into an inversion of the monument.
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Deep Futures | Hydroflux-City institute:
Design Studio Fall 2011
Tutor:
Hani Rashid
part n e r s : Ewa Lenart, Jeroen Roosen
Cities, and particularly future cities have been a recurrent subject of intrigue and curiosity for all types of disciplines, and within ours especially, for what we have called ‘visionary architects’. Today as the discipline of architecture seeks to realign itself according to methods of creating, new technological means (particularly centered around energy resources and sustainability as well as social patterns and mobility), entirely new forms of cultural expression and so on. The notion of ‘city’ itself as a subject is probably once again positioned as the most intriguing and problematic territory today within our discipline to study in depth and once again try and solve. With the use of various representational tools, predominately digital, each group will work to reinterpret and rework their precedents thereby ‘appropriating’ the principals at work in the precedents and applying these findings to entirely new and perhaps unprecedented ‘master plans’. These results will form the basis of a new sub city in which students will be asked in the following phases to intervene and ‘occupy’ with their architectural proposals.
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temperature increase due to global warming
Since the task was to develop a masterplan in a tabula rasa condition, our interest went towards untouched terrain on the northern hemisphere. In specific, the arctic was the region that interested us the most. The arctic will definetly be an area of interest in the future, and in fact, the race for the arctic territories has already begun.
major settlements in the arctic
important shipping routes in the northern hemisphere
Rich in resources, be it fossil enery sources or seldom elements like Lithium for renewable energy-technology, the area above the polar circle is one of the most intriguing, unexplored places on earth. Despite the economic facts, the arctic is emotionalwise also an area which always attracted explorer and people with the urge to discover new terrains. sun-diagram
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Our masterplan is placed on the sibirian island Novaya Semlya. We choose this site because it has a geopolitical importance by being at the gate of the North-east passage, a shiproute which due to global warming will gain more importance in the future.
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Expeditions nowadays in the arctic are very much depending on the seasons. During the summer explorers and scientists gain data and information on site and satellite reseach stations. With the beginning of winter they retire and process the data. Hydroflux City is ment to be one of the global bases ot arctic research by giving a unique an specialised environment as a starting point for expeditions in the arctic.
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INDIVIDUAL DESIGN PROJECT Concept design for a chosen scenario for intervening in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;master planâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scaffolding. The project is placed at the border of the masterplan as a connection to the city. Due to the location, this harbour proposal is ment not just as harbour, but should also occupy an help the data gathering and processing to the nearby research area.
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Concept design for a chosen scenario for intervening in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;master planâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scaffolding. The project is placed at the border of the masterplan as a connection to the city. Due to the location, this harbour proposal is ment not just as harbour, but should also occupy an help the data gathering and processing to the nearby research area.
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Energy Design A institute:
Department of Energy Design - Fall 2012
Tutor:
Bernhard Sommer, Brian Cody
part n e r s :
Deniz Önengut, Hugo Torres, Daniel Schinagl
Energy overall concepts which consider climatic boundary conditions, natural energy resources and user-specific contemplation lower primary energy use in high-rise buildings reduce total primary energy commitment and allow in spite of technical complexity energy opimized buildings. At total energy optimized concepts, energysystems merge with sophisticated architectural drafts. The type ‚high rise building‘ is generally inherent energy inefficient. Because of the special form technical requirements are leading to a bad relation between GFA and effective surface and therefore to a high energy consumption concerning construction, operation and recycling. Transport areas and the necessary surface for technical installations are evident for the space plan and especially in the lower floors the use of natural light is difficult. Meteorological circumstances are forcing exceptional solutions in facade design and hence are influencing the appearance of the building.
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Due to the mediterran climate our building will focus mostly on cooling itself. The direct connection to the bosporus makes it possible to use the current there to cool our building down.
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The average temperature of the bosporus is about 10째C at our site. The difference in temperature is enough to oool our building down. We are using the current of the bosporus to enforce our cooling circuit. by using the natural pressure of the stream we lower our energy consumption to the heatingcircuit.
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each program is separated based on their usage through the day. when not in use a whole section can be shut down.
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circulation elements are housed in twhe main structure, each program can be reached separately.
separate entrances for different programs. public space on ground level
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Since our building is a has a very porous structure we decided to use that fact as a benefit and plant piezoeletrical stick which harvest the windenergy and induct it directly into our superstructure.
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Since our building is a has a very porous structure we decided to use that fact as a benefit and plant piezoeletrical stick which harvest the windenergy and induct it directly into our superstructure.
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Advanced Structural Design B institute:
Department of structural design - Summer 2012
Tutor:
Klaus Bollinger
part n e r s :
Viktoria Sandor, Ewa Lenart, Stephan Tomasi
The task was to analyze Wachsmann‘s project for the airforce-hangar and to reevaluate his design with contemporary tools of computation. We got to this point by first trying out different shell structures and then building our knowledge gained into our new design.
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For the design of our new version of the Wachsmann-Hangar we chose a new strategy. It could be called a “top-down-strategy”. The element of a hangar that is most visible is its roof, so our atempt was to design only the “roof-landscape”. Everything else (roofspaceframe, position of supports, shape of supports, ...) would than be created by parametric scrpits created in grasshopper and karamba. In addition to the shape of the roof, areas where no supports can be are determined on the ground to ensure that the program can be absorbed. So basicaly the design of the hangar will be automatically created by developing the roofs shape and setting the areas on the ground that have to be free from columns.
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SCRIPT 01 - SPACEFRAME & SUPPORT POINTS This script basically takes the designsurface and makes a spaceframe according to the local curvature. Once the framework is made it calculates the ideal positions of the supports to bring the loads down.
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SCRIPT 02 - BRING THE LOADS TO GROUND By designing a region where the loads could be brought to the foundations, we scattered points on them and let the script find the ideal connections to bring the loads from the spaceframe down by not interfearing with the boundingbox around the airplane.
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final geometry
We designed the shape of the shell according to the spaces that different kind of airplanes would occupy and following the flow of stresses. Once we got the designsurface, throughout a script we crated a spaceframe which takes the curvature and size of each quad into account. Therefore the space-frame updates always on new designinput. To find the ideal points of support we run galappagos in combination with karamba. We let the script choose 20 support points and run the algorithm.
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The next step was to bring the loads to the ground. For that we made a shape on the ground and scattered points on that. Our second script created different connections to them and optimized them to get the most ideal structure. The goal was to create an interior space between both sides of the hangar while leaving the planes enough space to navigate into the hangar and not to interfier with the structure.
With the combination of both scripts we managed to get a nerly ideal combination of roof and supporting structure. Due to the iterative optimization of the structure it is not only prooven that the whole structure works but also the com
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