FY-LANGES BY FY! NEW YORK, NY
SPRING 2012 FAST PACE // SLOW SPACE M. BEARAK + B. BORDERS
PARTNERS: Rand Abdul-Jabbar, Aisha Alsager, Susan Bopp, Justin Fabrikant, Rikki Frenkel, Joanne Hayek, Elektra Kontoroupi, Nick Reiter, Jennifer Romeo
Architizer A+ Awards Special Mention
FY-Langes is an interactive spatial installation designed and built by 10 students at Columbia University’s GSAPP. FY-Langes was on display on campus at the end of year show in May 2012, and was selected as part of the FIGMENT NYC project that took place on Governor’s Island, New York June 9-10th, 2012. The system is built entirely of packing foam which was transformed into its constructed system through digital scripting and fabrication processes. The overall form is derived from a series of unrolled strands of phalanges, each of which is looped over on itself to form one unit bale. Multiple bales are connected through a tabbing system integrated within the scripting and fabrication processes. The parametric nature of the design-to-fabrication sequence allowed the team to sculpt the final installation piece all the way up to fabrication time. A nesting strategy during fabrication also provided the project with 99% material efficiency. FY-Langes is designed to be a flexible, adaptable and reconfigurable system in the sense that it can have a life beyond the initially designed form while still maintaining its initial design intent of tactility, responsiveness and user-generated interaction. Its strands can be used collectively to build a composite form or can work on their own. It is also adaptable and flexible in the way it can be staged in any particular site. Other uses include but are not limited to: wall/ceiling installations, furniture, outdoor components.
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ASSEMBLED BALES
FORM TO FABRICATION: To generate the form, three input surfaces are required, corresponding to the bottom of the bale, top of the bale, and top of the phalanges. Our script offers the capability to easily customize the form by manipulating these three surfaces and thus the proportions of the bale units. 162
NESTED CUT FILES
NESTING STRATEGY: FY-Langes achieves nearly 99% material efficiency through a nesting strategy, pairing bale cutfiles with ones on the reverse side of the overall construction 163
BALE ORGANIZATION: A total of 561 bales were organized through alpha-numeric naming conventions governed by the bale typology (end, transition, seating) and its grid location by row and column. 164
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MATERIAL DISTRIBUTION: Each cut file is formed from an eight-foot length of much larger packaging foam rolls, corresponding to the CNC machine bed and maintaining bale units at a manageable scale 165
FY-LANGES as configured for display in front of Avery Hall, Columbia University
FY-LANGES are enjoyed by children and adults alike; here, exhibited on Governor’s Island for the Figment NYC festival. 166
FY-LANGES exhibited in front of Avery Hall for the 2012 End of Year Show 167
WOOD SEATING UNITS
SPRING 2013 CRAFT IN A DIGITAL AGE NATHAN CARTER
This series of projects seeks to explore tools and methodologies of fabrication using more conventional woodshop tools. Each of four seating units addresses specific issues including complex joinery, transformability, bending and multi-body accommodation. Each project begins with a simple conceptual sketch. These ideas are then moved into a digital model, where concepts are taken through a rigorous series of iterations that seek to refine issues relating to proportion, ergonomics, structural engineering, material definition and constraints, fabrication sequence and constraints, and overall design intent.
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AQUATIC RESEARCH PLATFORM
SPRING 2012 BEYOND PROTOTYPE JASON IVALIOTIS
PARTNERS: Andrew Maier, Ping Pai, Alejandro Stein
The Aquatic Research Platform is a floating observatory that controls human interaction with marine life. The cellular mesh forms a porous surface where aperture size controls engagement with the water. The areas that rise above the surface of the water contain larger apertures that allow users to pass through the net-like platform and engage with marine life. The submerged areas of the platform contain smaller apertures to provide a smoother walking surface and a protective barrier between human inhabitants and the more dangerous aquatic life forms. To provide for a smooth walking and climbing surface that is appropriate to this type of marine application, the folded panels conceal all hardware connections within the interior of the connective geometry between cells. The initial analogue studies focused on the generation of a cellular network formed from minimal cutting and folding. The base geometry was created with triangular cells formed from three simple panels. Each panel contains only three folds and fastens to adjacent panels to form a triangular cell with a central aperture. The geometry of the folded mesh is generated by several parametric definitions in Grasshopper where the opening and closing of the triangular aperture responds to the humanto-marine life interface desired. Distance based attractors are employed to control the opening and closing of the apertures as well as the overall depth of the cellular construct.
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PROTOTYPE MODULE, full scale; 1/4” acrylic, heat-bent 169
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MODULE CONFIGURATION: Each triangular module is composed of three sub-modules, which interlock with one another in order to provide inherent rigidity and to conceal hardware connections. 170
FABRICATION ASSEMBLY: (1) Heat-bending tabs to proper angles; (2) Fastening the three sub-modules with concealed hardware; (3) Connecting one module to another using pre-drilled access holes for hardware fastening
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION: The platform porosity changes with the required function, controlled by varying the aperture size of modules. Module depth is also varied to tune the necessary buoyant forces.
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ADAPTIVE CONNECTIONS
2013 ACSA/AISC STEEL DESIGN STUDENT COMPETITION Second Place
PARTNERS: Andrew Maier, Vahe Markosian, Jim Stoddart
Cleveland, OH
The post-industrial history and waterfront landscape of downtown Cleveland is characterized by the entangled urban infrastructures resulting from layers of different developmental phases. As Cleveland redefines itself as a thriving contemporary city, the design for this bridge captures the tradition of steel bridge construction and affordable customized fabrication through parametric logic. The urban goal of the bridge is to connect the Cleveland Mall with the cultural and entertainment institutions that line the North Coast Harbor waterfront of Lake Erie. Pedestrian connection is severed by the Shoreway, the coastal vehicular freeway, and the railroad lines that connect the city to the regional public and industrial lines. Moreover, the bridge will mark the development for a new intermodal transportation hub. The associated building will be constructed on the same site as the existing Lakefront Station, which, currently isolated, serves only the rail lines. This hub will be a key link between pedestrian, bicycle, rail, and vehicular activity. While the intermodal building serves as a central access point and structural pier to the bridge, access is created at the Mall on the south end, and at the Browns Stadium and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the north ends. At the south, the elevated condition of the Mall lends itself as the spring-point for access to the bridge deck. Additionally, the new convention center constructed beneath creates direct entry to the bridge truss level and to the wing of the bridge deck via an existing outdoor mezzanine. At the north, the bridge splits into two separate spans reaching toward the lakefront, where stair-and-elevator vertical entries support the end cantilevers.
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The design emphasis lies on the variability of a cross-sectional structural and decking system to create a varying topography that hosts an array of opportunities for interaction with the surrounding context. Multi-level passage allows for dynamic experiences along length of bridge, including places of rest (benches), transition from inside (truss) to outside (deck), and views to waterfront, contextual architecture, and the transportation corridors that run below. The parametric structural bay is conceived through a combination of standard stock steel extrusion members and custom, water-jet-cut connection plates. By sandwiching the plates, complex bent plates allow for geometric variability with minimal customized steel and provides repeatable, varied connection details for simple, efficient, shop-built construction for rapid on-site construction. Strings of purlins, hosted by the structure, support the varying decking that wraps across these bays. The decking is comprised of strips of bent plate steel, articulated to meet the programmatic and experiential intentions of the bridge design. Along the outer wings, the decking transforms into seating benches. On non-horizontal stretches, the decking is twisted to reflect the gradation with the slope of the surface to provide open views through to the surroundings.
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CLEVELAND MALL AND CONVENTION CENTER
SITE PLAN SITING + CONTEXT: The bridge spans over existing railroad and freeway lines (top); the south end is anchored into the newly-constructed convention center (middle); the bifurcated bridge plan connects major public spaces and attractions, centered around a new intermodal hub (bottom) 211
BRIDGE + INTERMODAL HUB PLAN: The bridge is anchored at its center by the pavilion of a new intermodal hub; the undulating topography of the multi-layered bridge decks create multiple paths and experiences for its users 212
URBAN INTEGRATION: View from truss deck level overlooking the Cleveland Shoreway and Great Lakes Science Center (top); view from top deck level looking toward Browns Stadium (bottom) 213
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ADAPTABLE TECTONICS: Structure and cladding are comprised of both stock extrusion members and custom-cut sheet stock (top); this hybrid system allows the bridge to adapt to a wide range of experiential conditions across its span (bottom) 214
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JOINTS AND CONNECTIONS: Standard stock extrusions sandwich aroun the adaptive joint to provide variable structural bays (top); CATIA software yields fabrication-ready cut-files as immediate feedback within the design framework (bottom) 215