MID-RISE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN TORINO JÖRMUNGANDR

from Sergei Yanchenko's porfolio 2023

IRELAND CULTURAL CENTRE

The project Jörmungandr acts more as an experiment with parametric architecture tools than as a traditional residential project. The purpose was set to build an apartment building using the set of given apartments from famous architectural projects. The conceptual part of the project was designed in the Grasshopper from the general shape to the random placement of the blocks and development of the distribution system and finally, the model was adjusted in the Rhinoscense The use of parametric tools made it possible to link the General conceptual form and the Random placement of blocks by the algorithm, thus, once adopting the General shape, the Final model changes.

Jörmungandr named after the great serpent from the Scandinavian mythology that encircles the planet is a complex housing project taking place in the north of Torino which unites two separated land plots into one live organism. It’s a composition of fourteen different units combined in the most optimal way to maximize the general function of the building. completing the design with the complex circulation elements, the ground floor is completely assigned for open public use, however, the rest of the levels are exclusively for residential use only. The diverse configuration of the apartments required the creation of a wide distribution system which was transformed into a common space