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Omar Quesada Arias BArch. Universidad de Costa Rica MSc. Emergent Technologies and Design, Architectural Association School of Architecture Chevening Scholar 2013-2014
Personal Data Passport: 112360688 Birth Date: March 26th, 1985 Birth Place: San JosĂŠ, Costa Rica Nationality: Costarican Marital Status: Single Permanent Address: London, UK Main Phone: +44 (0) 74 63 80 88 50 E-mail: omar.quesada.arias@gmail.com Languages: Spanish and English
Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR)
Background
-2010-2011, Design Workshop Professor, III year degree -2012-2013, Design Workshop Professor, III and IV years degree
Design Workshop Professor Undergraduate Diploma (3rd and 4th year units), School of Architecture, Universidad de Costa Rica Gensler, 2010-2013 Registered Architect: Costa Rica CFIA since 2010
Lectures - Speaking Engagement - Publications
Selected Experience
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-General Motors Facility Image, USA. Multiple locations Job Captain. -School of Business, University of Houston, USA. 5.570 m2 Job Captain -Robin Hood Foundation, KIPP High School, NY, USA. 121.000 sf Job Captain -Universidad Veritas - Visioning Session Coordinator y Facilitator -Gensler Education Practice Area Round Tables Coordinator y Facilitator -Peer Review: Fundación Ciudadelas de la Libertad Reviewer Architect -Columbia University Medical Center, NY, USA . 100.000 sf Liason and Job Captain -ULACIT, Master Plan. San José, Costa Rica 70.000 m2 Project Manager -Magen David Academy, Panama. 15.000 m2 Programming
Freelance
-Eliz Plaza, Locales Comerciales, Alajuela, Costa Rica Project Director -Casa CT, Alajuela, Costa Rica. Project Director -Residential Master Plan and Design, Alajuela, Costa Rica Project Director -Guacamayos House, Typologies Housing Design Design Director -Herrera House, Poas, Alajuela, Costa Rica Design Director
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Digital Skills • • •
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120.000 m2 300 m2 350 m2
Adobe: Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop 3d Modeling: Rhino, Grasshopper, Revit, Vectorworks Architectural Drawings: AutoCad, Revit, Graphic Design and free hand abilities Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Powerpoint
References
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¨International Conference on Vertical Farming and Urban Agriculture 2014¨ The University of Nottingham, UK ¨Disjunctive Spaces to Unlearn¨ TEDx Ed Pura Vida. 2012 ¨Towards a new spatial conception for Teaching and Learning in the XXI Century¨ IVth International Congress of Complexity, Transdisciplinarity and Ecoformation. San José, Costa Rica. 2010 ¨Learning Spaces for the XXI Century¨ Universidad Veritas, Costa Rica. 2011 ¨Spaces for the Complex Learning¨ Universidad de Costa Rica. 2011
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Samuel Bermudez Ureña, Principal and Office Director, Gensler samuel_bermudez@gensler.com / Telephone: (506) 2505-3700 Eleonora Badilla Saxe, Educator and Director of RIFED and Cátedra U., Universidad de Costa Rica eleonora.badilla@ucr.ac.cr / Telephone: (506) 8855-2926 Michael Weinstock, Director Research and Development, Director Emergent Technologies and Design Architectural Association School of Architecture mweinstock@aaschool.ac.uk
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Eliz Plaza
Project type: Retail Size: 500 m2 Location: Alajuela, Costa Rica Role: Project Director Softwares: Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator Status: Under construction Year: 2013
A client saw the chance to provide new architecture to Alajuela, a city which doesn’t have a particular architectonic language or buildings attached to the living experience of the context. This was translated into an opportunity to generate iconic architecture, bringing new values of how it can connect with its context and bring about contrast within its monotonous neighborhood.
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Guacamayos House
Project type: Residential Size: 300 m2 Location: Coyol, Alajuela, Costa Rica Role: Design Director Softwares: Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator Status: Under construction - 2014 Year: 2013
Located in the outskirts of Alajuela, the Coyol area is a warm and green zone of Costa Rica. The clients were looking for a house able to integrate the public areas with the frontyard and backyard as one unique space. The project is conceptualize by two dynamic shapes containing the private areas in the second floors and integrated by a third volume that becomes an interior bridge connecting all the areas.
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Placas, pernos de anclaje y lámina para vigas tipo H, fy= 2520 Kgr/cm2. Vigas tipo W y tubos estructurales HSS y columnas A-36
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NOTAS ESTRUCTURALES CIMENTACIONES Y CONTRAPISOS. - La profundidad de cimentación será de 1,0 mts mínimo bajo el nivel de suelo , colocando un sello de lastre compactado de 7 cm de espesor mínimo. En aquellos lugares en donde lo indique la inspección, la profundidad del relleno podría ser mayor, de acuerdo al tipo de suelo que se encuentre en sitio.
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La capacidad soportante admisible del terreno que utilizada es de 10 ton/m2 a 1,0 metros de profundidad bajo el nivel actual de terreno.
Precinta en durock
Para el contrapiso, deberá hacerse una sustitución de 30 cm mínimo de lastre compactado al 95% del Próctor Estándar en capas de 10 cm.
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Los elementos como losas de entrepiso, vigas aéreas, deberán de permanecer apuntalados después del colado no menos de 20 días, o el tiempo que indique el inspector.
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Las dimensiones de los elementos metálicos deberán de verificarse en obra antes de iniciar su fabricación.
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El contratista de la estructura metálica deberá usar equipo de soldadura del tipo y capacidad adecuadas para el trabajo que se llevará a cabo, y lo deberá mantener en óptimo estado de operación. Los tipos de electrodos para soldar con arco deben ser los adecuados para el procedimiento que se utilice y serán seleccionados apropiadamente para satisfacer las necesidades de los distintos trabajos de soldadura.
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CT House
Project type: Residential Size: 320 m2 Location: Alajuela, Costa Rica Role: Project Director Softwares: Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator Status: Under construction Year: 2013
In the northwest perimeter of Alajuela city, the clients requested a house which could unveil their personalities and life perspective with a unique architectonic language. Immersed in a residential complex, the house uses overhanging geometries in specific areas in which tenants feel as if floating in the air and challenging gravity.
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320 square meters of program needed to fit into a 360 square meter site. The clients also wanted to have as many green areas as possible, thus presenting the challenge of placing the program in such a way that every piece could be fitted following national building codes. The answer was to put together the programmatic needs in one layer, differentiating public areas from the private ones. The layer was unfolded into two compacted levels, and the rest of the site’s foot print dedicated to green open spaces. This programmatic layer generates the structure which embraces an overhanging capsule that intercepts the glazing. The capsule will have the flexibility of accommodating private areas, such as the bedroom, library and music room; and then unfold again to locate the vertical circulation of the house.
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SolĂŠ Residential Complex
Project type: Mixed Use Size: 120000 m2 Location: Alajuela, Costa Rica Role: Project Director Softwares: Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator Status: Design Development Year: 2013
Due to the increasingly demanding housing market, an empty land formerly used for crops next to the main prison of Costa Rica is now expected to become a residential complex. 120000 square meters needs to be fitted and offer not just the appropiate place to live but also a strong marketing concept that deconstructs how people feel about living next to a prison.
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The design of the complex has to deal with almost all the perimeter borders because of the prison or its future developments. After a marketing analysis, we found that with our project and other upcoming residential projects in the area, the community would lack basic services in less than 5 years. For that reason, the concept will target 3 consolidated blocks. Block number one is dedicated to retail and will be transitioning from the projects’ public zones to the private ones. Block 2 represents 60% of the gross area and it is devoted to different housing typologies. Finally, Block 3 is going to serve as the articulator with the prison borders, opening spaces with landscape features, sports and com munity facilities.
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KIPP NYC College Prep High School
Project type: Education Size: 121.000 sf Location: Bronx, NY Role: Job Captain Softwares: Revit Year: 2011 The Robin Hood Foundation finds, funds, and partners with programs across New York City to help improve impoverished communities. The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) is a national free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory network of public schools with a track record of preparing students from undeserved communities for success in college and life. For this project, Robin Hood formed a partnership with KIPP, and commissioned Gensler for the design of the KIPP NYC College Prep High School in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. I was invited to participate with the New York team and becoming my first experience in a real educational project.
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One of the greatest challenges for this project was the site selection. The west edge of the site is bounded by Park Avenue, a road which runs parallel to the Metro North railroad tracks. Due to the vitality of Park Avenue and the noise of the railroad, the team designed an acoustically treated façade to block sound. Acoustic consideration is also implemented in separations between learning spaces and the corridors and stairwells. The project is a five-story plus basement level high school serving approximately 1,000 students and related faculty, administration, and staff. The state-of-the-art building will include classrooms, offices, gymnasiums, and a 900-seat “cafetorium” (a multiprogrammatic shared cafeteria and auditorium) with a kitchen. The building will also include science labs, an art studio, a dance studio, tech lab, a library, and other specialty instructional spaces. The classrooms on the four upper floors are arranged efficiently in a double loaded corridor to provide good visibility for teachers and administrators— as well as achieving natural daylight in all instructional spaces. At the end of each corridor, furnished areas will be provided to serve as impromptu meeting spaces for students and faculty fostering the informal learning .
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Diller Scofidio+Renfro Sketch
Columbia Medical Center (CUMC)
Project type: Education Size: 100.000 sf Location: Manhattan, NY Role: Job Captain Softwares: Revit Year: 2012
The new Medical and Graduate Education building will serve as a learning hub that will inspire and change the lives of Columbia University’s Medical and Graduate students, carrying out the school’s core mission of educating and training future generations of health care professionals. The building contains a full program of functional and flexible formal spaces, including a lecture hall, as well as the critical technical spaces needed for medical education like anatomy labs and simulation centers which have their specific needs.
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The client (Columbia University) is ranked first (tied with MIT, Stanford University and Penn) in the first tier of the United States’ top research universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance. By establishing this new center on their 20-acre Upper Manhattan Medical Center Campus, Columbia hopes to align their facilities to the superior level of worldclass leadership in scientific research, health and medical education, and patient care that they are known for providing. Gensler as the Executive Architect firm collaborated with Diller Scofidio + Renfro utilizing BIM modeling and other programs to solve design challenges. I had the opportunity of being part of the Gensler team as a job captain having constantly tasks for the documentation and great collaborative experience with a big team. One of the challenges of the project, was the need to incorporate this complex program into a relatively small footprint of 12,500 square feet. After continuos sessions with students, faculty, and administrators, as well as the executive committee, it was decided that students going through this highly competitive and stressful curriculum also need relaxing and informal gathering spaces to unwind. The solution the team realized inverts the traditional horizontal campus concept to a vertical campus layout that allows for informal spaces and creates an interconnected, open plan. The concept was to create a ¨cascading glass facade¨ with the availability to act as a campus, equipped with informal spaces and serving as an icon neighborhood beacon. The final design weaves social areas throughoutthe building to take full advantage of the views of the Hudson River and the integrated landscaping throughout.
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Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (ULACIT)
Project type: Education Size: 70.000 m2 Location: San José, Costa Rica Role: Project Manager Softwares: Revit, Sketch, Rio Status: Design Development Year: 2013
Redefining the educational program of one of the leading universities in Central America will not only extend more services to the Costa Rican community but it will also attract and retain an increasing amount of international presence. To achieve this goal, Gensler was contracted for taking advantage of the client’s strategic central location in the city of San José to make the campus more visible to the public and open opportunity to create an impact of reference of how educational facilities for the new century could it be.
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Since I came to Gensler I had the goal of develope the Education Practice Area in our Costa Rica office. This project meant, the first big won and the opportunity to make a tangible impact in my country. We got together a strong team of specialists within Gensler’s Education + Culture practice area and worked with the client to design new buildings and redesign existing areas. Part of the master plan includes programs such as Architecture, Art & Design, Health, Social Sciences, and Engineering. The purpose of the new buildings is to create a strong connection with the community by using a permeable design that will permit constant interaction between the campus and the outside world. Additionally, connecting the buildings with pedestrian bridges over some of San José’s main roads will showcase the campus to the Costa Rican community. The project is a whole new conceptual design for educational facilities. Additionally, the project is on track to become the first LEED certified campus in Costa Rica, and is currently in the Programming phase.
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Faculty of Education, Universidad de Costa Rica Project type: Education Size: 12000 m2 Location: Rodrigo Facio Campus Role: Architecture and design Softwares: Vectorworks, 3d max, Photoshop The University of Costa Rica (UCR) is the main university of the country and one of the most recognized in Latin America. Its main campus, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, is located in Montes de Oca, around 3 km from the center of the capital city. It covers an area of around 31.5 ha, which includes the buildings of the different faculties and schools. The current location of the Faculty of Education, one of the oldest buildings on campus, is in need of improvement and gathering their faculty in one single space. Having carried out thorough research of new trends in pedagogy and education dynamics, I have proposed a theoretical work of design patterns for educational spaces that can be applied to the new Faculty of Education and integrated to the existing conditions.
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The theoretical principles obtained through research propose a dialogical system of complex patterns which seek the reactivation of the existing building of the Faculty of Education through its integration with the new building, both of which would be conceived as a whole. The articulation between them would be given by one of the new volumes through a skylight that marks the transition from one place to another. The new building will give users the feeling of floating above the upper level of the existing infraestructure. The site design is consistent with what happens inside the building, giving way to educational events under the concept of continuous “learningteaching-learning� patterns.
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Upon entering the building there is a height and a total reading of what happens at this first level. Here, the user will experience a new concept of “library”; which integrates contradictory activities, such as a cafeteria, making the library a place to have coffee and talk (Info-Network Café). On the other hand the new concept of “classroom without walls” will provide environments suitable for chatting, designed with soft furniture and movable walls or “whiteboard” surfaces that can be digital screens surrounding the old but renovated auditorium (classrooms without walls). The whole building is connected by a ramp core guaranteeing inclusive accesibility, which would also work as a gallery, providing places for exhibitions and social gatherings. These ramps are used as the connection with other levels, where the new heavy volume “floats”. The new concept of formal “classroom” for teaching and learning is characterized by supplying places with more than one whiteboard (Front 360), which can accommodate various educational simultaneously (Common Factor) and merge with informal spaces. This comes in useful when groups of students are too crowded or when the space is not being used for a class (self-organizational). As part of the reactivation plan, the old concrete terrace-roof of the 1957 building now becomes important for outdoor events, maximizing the total use of space conducive to knowledge emergence
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“Disjunctive spaces to Unlearn”
Disjunctive spaces to Unlearn
Extract from my graduation project: ¨Towards a new Spatial Conception for Teaching and Learning in the XXI century¨, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2010 Event: Tedx Ed Pura vida Year: 2012 What’s next? is a question that many young architects ask themselves after graduating college. When I finished my studies at UCR (University of Costa Rica), I wanted to continue the work I started with my senior thesis project based in how the Complex Thinking Paradigm1 (a sistematic way to understand and interpret world’s behavior) affects pedagogy or education in general and how these implications are translated into physical space. But I was afraid my thesis project would end up, as many others, dying slowly in dusty/underutilized libraries. Today one of my professional goals is to create something tangible from my theorical thesis.
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In November of 2010 I began to work at Gensler. Quickly I became part of a larger network in the company who shared my passion of improving spaces for education. Together we conform the Education Practice Area and we’re constantly seeking concepts that deconstruct the way we design traditionally educational spaces. What current educational spaces lack is evolution. We are stuck in the past. We can’t compare our work with other similar analogue disciplines like medicine because those spaces have always been evolving and technology has been integrated into spatial design. Educational spaces shouldn’t be outcast from a changing world full of new learners and emergent technologies. They should inspire and motivate students to increase their learning. From the start of our academic careers until the end of college, we are taught by a Newtonian- mechanic way of thinking in which information comes from a single source: the teacher. The structure of knowledge we acquire is usually fragmented by disciplines. Thanks to emergent technologies and new scientific findings, the way we learn is now changing. New generations prize collaboration in non-linear ways with other people and quickly adapt to their different lifestyles. This newly evolved “species” is always zapping2 from one information channel to another. As a result, we urgently crave for informal spaces that remind us our living rooms at home. However, educational institutions do not have these type of spaces today, so when young students arrive to educational campus they feel separated from their lifestyle driven spaces where they work most of the time via digital multiple resources. We now know that most knowledge is acquired outside of the classroom. To foster more in-classroom learning, we need to re- conceptualize formal spaces and informal spaces. They must embrace new pedagogical methodologies. Informal spaces could be seen as the new classrooms without walls3 where we can foster the emergence of knowledge in collaboration with others. Here, teachers can provide students with specific guidance depending of the student’s multiple intelligence4. Formal learning can occur in the informal spaces, meaning that we must break away from designing for just one linear function and start to think about multi-programmatic spaces that celebrate the emergence of all educational events.
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Let’s start creating learning spaces where we unlearn the traditional way we used to be educated with emergent thoughts of interaction inside/outside of the “classrooms” and a better sense for evolving human behavior. These new formal/informal spaces will not educate the student, they will facilitate the interaction between students and teachers depending on the new pedagogies which foster horizontal schemes that allow learning through multiple sources of information.
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San Carlos Cultural Plaza Project type: Cultural Size: 20527 m2 Location: San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica Role: Architecture and design Softwares: Rhino, 3d max, Photoshop San Carlos is a city rich in natural beauty and vegetation. Its fresh air and beautiful mountains make it a great escape from the hustle and bustle of the capital, San Jose. Precisely beacuse of the beauty of its natural environment, San Carlos receives a large number of tourists. However, in terms of infrastructure, the city doesn´t have much appeal either for the tourist or its community. This is why the project seeks an urban intervention in the existing Central Park, generating a program in which the community will be able to broadcast their cultural expressions to the world.
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The project is inspired by the irregular topography of mountainous San Carlos. It is composed of an interactive moebius band that starts to bifurcate and unfold into two main overlapping layers. The first layer is underground, which fosters diverse exhibition galleries that promote San Carlos’ art and local customs. The second layer represents the green roof which is also the floor, where its curves stimulate the use of open spaces, potentially generating urban events.
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Omar Quesada Arias A44121 TALLER ARKHTEK Proyecto: Parque Ciudad Quesada Corte Longitudinal esc. 1:200
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Farm City:
¨Creating Efficient Urban Systems through Integrated Food Production¨, Architectural Association School of Architecture Year: 2014
Is it possible to modify the architecture of a dense, urban environment in such a way that it can provide enough food to sustain its inhabitants? Exponential population growth, coupled with rural-to-urban migration patterns means that the methods that we use to growanddistributefoodwillhavetochange in the very near future. Urban agriculture has the potential to alleviate this stress on traditional, industrial agricultural practice. Urban agriculture provides an opportunity to create a vastly superior quality of urban life, along with a possibility of reducing agriculturerelated carbon emissions. An increased investment in urban and peri- urban agriculture will create significant social and political challenges to the built environment that can only be overcome by a new urban and architectural approach. This project address building on and retrofitting existing urban fabric to create effective food distribution networks, closed urban ecological systems, and positive productive urban spaces. A computational framework was developed that facilitates the informed integration of productive land in a prototype patch in Beijing, China. The framework was extensively tested against Beijing’s challenging climactic, socio-political, environmental, and infrastructural conditions. This method is based on Cellular Automata theory and takes a hierarchical approach: giving precedence first to the spatial and Program Density Targets topographical organisation of cells, and secondary consideration to the physical morphology of buildings. We evaluate the system at discrete moments in time, simulating urban development over pre-determined time-scales. Outcomes will rely on the local interactions between cells to affect emergent behaviour that simulates the influenced growth of an urban system.
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Material Systems: Fingers Crossed
Architectural Association School of Architecture Year: 2014 Fingers Crossed is a form-active structure designed by the Emergent Technologies and Design Programme (Emtech) at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in collaboration with Arup, TRADA, and Hanson Plywood for the London Design Festival 2014. Built from 9 mm birch plywood and relying solely on friction as a joining solution, rather than metal connections, Fingers Crossed both exploits and celebrates the material behaviour of wood. The project, initiated as a collaboration between students of architecture, professional engineers and the UK’s leading timber authority, seeks to express the bending capacity and joinery possibilities that timber provides by integrating structural and spatial performance into one elegant architectural solution. The design was conceived through a week-long ideas competition, where students in the Emergent Technologies and Design Programme developed strategies and systems for the manipulation of plywood sheets into doubly curved surfaces, assembled without any metal connections. Using both material and digital computational techniques, various methods were tested and prototyped, ultimately ending in the proposal of plywood sheets CNC-milled at the Architectural Association’s Digital Prototyping Lab, with a variable finger pattern, joined together to create a series of articulated arches. Parametric modelling was used to achieve a feedback loop between geometrical and material studies and structural analysis provided by Arup structural engineers to design a pavilion with varied lighting effects and a playful, interactive landscape. This landscape, providing seating for visitors and organising circulation through the space, also performs structurally, lending stiffness at the base of the arch by locking it in place. Along with the design of the pavilion, the construction logic is conceived by the students in such a way that the structure can be assembled and disassembled in one day and transported as a flat-packed package by lorry.
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The pavilion has been developed iteratively, from digital models to various physical models at different scales. Digital modelling allows for initial geometric investigations, informed by rigorous physical material testing. Smaller scaled models provide an exploration into form and global structural performance while full-scale prototyping allows for the testing of 1:1 details, fabrication processes and construction methods. By working with these varied techniques, the digital computational model is calibrated to real physical data, embedding the material performance of plywood into the digital environment in which to design. This constant feedback loop provides for the intelligent development of many integrated design options that meet the required design criteria.
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Omar Quesada Arias contact: +44 (0) 74 63 80 88 50 / omar.quesada.arias@gmail.com