The Sine Pavilion

The Sine Pavilion provides a space for gathering, a space to be safe from the rain and the sun. Thepavilion was computationally designed using a sinus relationship and Gausian normal distributions. The main goal of the assignment is to explore computational design possibilities in form finding.

Using a grasshopper script, the pavilion is designed by cladding modules resting on a structural frame. First a triangular grid was mapped onto the surface and then each panel was scaled using a point charge located in the center of the pavilion based on their unique distance to the point. After moving the scaled triangular panels slightly up, they were then lofted to the original panels to complete the cladding. At the end the structural frame for the pavilion was created using a hexagonal grid that was mapped onto the surface and then piped.

Instructor: Lena Klein

Course: MM II

Term: Fall 2021