STRUCTURES I HIENZ ISLER STUDIES

Grasshopper Simulation

Physical Study Model

Parametric Modification

Assess Manipulations

Presentation

STUDY-MODEL EXPERIMENTATION HEINZ ISLER SHELLS

Heinz Isler’s shells were an innovative method of constructing accurate furnicular curvature, done purely thorugh the process of physical model making. Today, with the innovations of CAD softwares and plugIns, those same shells may be simulated through discretized, calculated geometry. This project explores an expansion from Isler’s conventional process with the addition of simulated models constucted in Grasshopper that join the physical models within the iterative process through measurable parameterization.

STRUCTURES I HEINZ ISLER STUDIES

DIGITAL MODEL 01 STANDARD FOUR-POINT SHELL

DIGITAL MODEL 03 FIVE-POINT SHELL FAILURE : MESH FOLDINGIDISTORTION

DIGITAL MODEL 04 FIVE POINT SHELL WITH WEAVERBIRDMESH SUB-DIVISION

PHYSICAL MODEL 01 STANDARD FOUR-POINT SHELL

PHYSICAL MODEL 02 FIFTH POINT GRADUAL INTRODUCTION

PHYSICAL MODEL 03 FIVE-POINT SHELL FAILURE : INSUFFICIENT MATERIAL

PHYSICAL MODEL 04 FIVE POINT SHELL WITH MATERIAL COMPENSATION

DESIGN III FORMAL ANALYSIS PRECEDENT: ALTES MUSEUM KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL

Sectional

The expression of both Karl Friedrich Shinkel’s rich geometric choreography in plan and the structural language articulated through facade and tectonic organization is disclosed through this model’s stategic cut revealing both the operations developed in planar and sectional drawings while maintaining a physical construction of the project

Base Model

in each of the Altes Museum’s mirrored halves. Through a combined use of laser cut acrylic, 3D-printined, and wooden elements, the model was first designed and planned in Rhinocerous 7, then carefully constructed with consideration of notational language denoting analogous, and related components of the building.

Project Outline

With the atomization and subdivision of land property over the past century in combination with the exponential growth in population, space has emerged as an unprecedented commodity for families and single occupants. This studio focuses in the emerging typology of accessory dwellings infilled within existing suburban lots. Surveying and studying existing sites in Toronto, Canada, students selected two lots with nuanced conditions to design a project containing multiple single-family living units.

CONSTRUCTED WITH GROUP MEMBERS: ILEA WUNDER GAIN MEEMONGKOL STELLA ANDRIANIS PHEOBE ZHANG

Treshold Sectional Model

Each student in this studio was tasked with selecting a critical moment in their design containing conditions of transformative threshold. A model was to be produced with tectonic expression of the vernacular mode of construction; lightweight timber framing.