Project Brief: cERES PAVILION
Architecture Studio: AIR Mohammed Wael Farsakh
The CERES Environmental Community is located near the Brunswick Terminal Station. Power Lines Run above the site giving this “Environmentally Conscious Community� an industrial presence. My challenge and aim is to try and create a design that lets the user forget about the Brunswick Terminal station, and instead link him to the nature. The Shelter I will create will use light and a mesh pattern to erase the shadows cast by the power-lines and manipulate more and natural ones.
CERES ENVIRONMENTAL PARK Images obtained from Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne
Design development
Creating a Lofted Surface with 2 Curves Projecting the Mesh onto the lofted surface - along the z axis
Extruding the Projected Lineworks
Changing the curves to mimic the topography of the Lake
Experimenting with the Mesh Changing the Cell Options, Bitmap Image, Numbers in Cell count + Points Equations
Offsetting the Mesh, ‘Grafting’ the two boundaries and creating a solid difference - Extruding the New Geometry
Fabrication & finalizing the design ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion at the University of Stuttgart There were many reasons to that influenced my progression of the design. The primary reason was the lack of structure in the design. As I began planning fabricating the design, i began to understand the required geometries, widths and spans for the powder 3D printing. To eliminate my issues with the maximum allowed span (1:4) I began experimenting with the lofted surface. After a couple of iterations, I decided to extrude a Hex geometry from the Lofted curves. By doing so the light entering the space would cast an interesting shadow as well as it would provide my pavilion with the necessary structure. WeaverBird was used later on to give the design a solid structure and depth. The Extruded wireframe was converted to a mesh and then thickened by the WeaverBird Mesh Thickener - this was also done to the Hexagonal Cells. The Thickness of the extruded mesh is slightly wider than that of the Hex Cells, this was done to add strength to the primary structure as well as add depth and levels to the design. This pavilion is a small scale project, yet it is meant to serve as a retreat from the industrial power lines running above Ceres. The use of shadows was chosen to hide the shadows of the overhanging lines and serve as a shell protecting the user.
Join Mesh Surfaces View Naked Edges Join Edges Create 2mm Thick Base (for added strength) Convert to Mesh Join Design Mesh to the Base Export as STL
Possible Issues of this Design with Powder 3D Printing: At this scale certain vertexes of the base geometry are 0.78mm or 1.63mm (2mm Minimum Requirement
Creating a second Prototype: Larger scale section of the original design
South Elevation
Section A
Final Render of Design in-situ
CONNECTIONS:
Fixed timber hinges for the thick mesh structure Pin joints attach the hexagon panels to the structure
Pavilion on Site Plan
Final Renders
Mohammed Wael Farsakh Student ID: 589569