FOLDING PAVILION
ABSTRACT Initially started with idea of ‘joining’, this project then moves further to explore the idea of folding and unfolding. It attempts to see architecture that has more active role which can be adaptable and interactive to the enivronment. Design iterations were done after series of folding studies and understanding the basic principles of foldings to acheive the movement of follwing traces of sun. JIYOON LEE, 3RD YEAR
INITIAL INSPIRATIONS & JOINT STUDIES
THE BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS BALL, 1931s
fabric giving spatial qualities relationship between human joints and mechanical joints
It’s zoomed in image of fabrics where joining inspiration came from.
BETWEEN JOINTS AND ARCHITECTURE It started from looking at joints in different perspective. Fabrics are cluster of joints as well as joints from our body.
angle: 90° length: A
angle: 100° length: A+ 2. 6
angle: 120° length: A+ 4. 9
angle: 140° length: A+ 7. 4
angle: 160° length: A+ 8. 9
angle: 180° length: A+ 9. 4
BASIC MECHANISM OF JOINERY It started with simple studies of changes of length of connection when a joint is folded.
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Sphering
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BASIC MECHANISM OF JOINERY Initial interest came from act of joining. Project started with studies of different types of joints.
A device that helps joint escaping from the system. Gear mechanism allows for a joint to rotate until it hits the beside structures
90°
A sphere that holds gear sphere rotate in x-axis.
JOINT ITERATIONS: MOVABLE JOINT Each grid is 10mm * 10mm.
A folding joint allows each leg to move with flexibility
A rotating joint allows each leg to move horizontally
JOINT ITERATIONS: MOVABLE JOINT Each grid is 10mm * 10mm.
INSPIRATIONS AND REFERENCES
YOKOHAMA PORT TERMINAL
V&A, AMANDA LEVETE ARCHITECTS
OYLER WU’S FOLDINGS
MOVEMENT INSPIRATIONS Coming from joint studies, this project starts to focus on the movement.
DIGITAL FOLDING TESTS
MOVEMENT STUDY: MODEL F It is a simple stretching study of a joint.
MOVEMENT STUDY: MODEL A
MOVEMENT STUDY: MODEL B
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SKELETON MOVEMENT TEST It is looking into how simple geometry can turn into various forms due to its folding joints.
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FOLDING AND UNFOLDING Simple test is done to look at how membrane is folding according to skeleton.
FOLDING AND UNFOLDING
FOLDING TESTS It is closely looking at principle of folding and unfolding.
FOLDING TESTS
FOLDING TESTS
FOLDING TESTS
FOLDING TESTS
FOLDING TESTS
FOLDING TESTS
FOLDIND DESIGN ITERATIONS
PATTERN FOLDING AND 3D FOLDING
FOLDING TESTS Combining different types of folding, it allows much more movent.
PATTERN FOLDING AND 3D FOLDING
FOLDING TESTS It is aiming to have individual folding to allow interactions with sun.
PATTERN FOLDING AND 3D FOLDING
FOLDING TESTS It is to test potential folding works.
FOLDING AND UNFOLDING It is explaining two mode of the movement: sleeping and waking up.
SUN STUDY & SITE INVESTIGATION
Summer Winter
Summer Winter
Summer Winter
Summer Winter
SUN ANGLE STUDY It is studying what would be the appropriate angle to reiceve maximum sunlight.
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East
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Morning time Approximately 7-8am
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Early afternoon Approximately 10am-12pm 1) Sun: Moves to East to West 2)Azimuth scale: works with azimuth line 3) Intersection between azimuth and altitude 4)Line of right asceasion 5)Sun moving line West
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Late afternoon Approximately 6pm
JANTAR MANTAR: JAI PRAKASH YANTRA Located in Delhi, India Jai Prakash Yantra is to observe the position of the sun. It is designed in a way that it recieves sunlight in certain times.
INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE Located in Paris, France this world Arab World Institute has interactive skin. Like how camera works, it shrinks and opens according to amount of sun during daytime.
SITE: HYDE PARK
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SITE: HYDE PARK
West
East
Morning time Approximately 7-8am
West
East
Early afternoon Approximately 11am
West
East
Late afternoon Approximately 6pm
GROUND CARVING RESOPONDING TO SUN It shows how sunlight reaches carved ground in different times of a day.
DESIGN ITERATIONS
OPENING DETAILS It is showing the idea of how openings open up individulally.
OPENINGS AND SUN It is showing how openings open up during morning and closes when sun goes down.
FOLDING CHAIR
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PAVILION EXPERIENCE
OPENINGS AND SUN It is showing how openings open up during morning and closes when sun goes down.
OPENINGS AND SUN
MORNING
EARLY AFTERNOON
LATE AFTERNOON
Morning 7AM
Midday 12PM
DURING DIFFERENT TIME OF A DAY
Sunset 4PM
IMAGINING PAVILION
FOLDING PAVILION It can be partially folded and unfolded as if it were a creature.
ANIMATION
PRINTED IN A2
PRINTED IN A2
PRINTED IN A2
JIYOON LEE UNIT 2 THIRD YEAR
Abstract
Located in the centre of Copenhagen, this project aims to reconsider existing hosing in urban context. Imagining housing that could activate communal and social life of people, this project proposes a new typology of community housing with a bee farm. With bees, it also investigates how human and other species can co-live. Instead of understanding bees as means of earning profits, it speculates and designs to achieve co-living with human and other species. Learning from housing examples and behaviour of bees this project will carefully negotiate the ideal living space between two clients.
MAP OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Blue line indicates the whole Copenhagen while yellow and red shows roads and train route.
østerbro It’s a place where upper-middle class resides. Situtated around the lakes, it is a quiet living neighborhood.
Nørrebro It is one of old working class area in Copenhagen. In the last few decades, it has changed to one of the lively area of the city.
Frederiksberg It is an area considered to be conservative district of Copenhagen. Normally characterised as affluent area with many green spaces.
Valby It was normally considered as outskirt area. However, it is gradually changing to affordable home for young workers and students.
Vesterbro Formally an market area, it is now changing to a place for galleries, theatres and restaurants. Housings are very expensive in this central part.
DISTRICTS OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Looking at different areas of copenhagen, it helps to understand each characteristics of the districts.
Centre It is a downtown of Copenhagen. One of oldest area it is mixture of residential and touristic area.
Christianshavn It is considered as one of poorest part of Copenhagen. It is community of 900 anarchist residents.
1986 ‘the Potato Diet’ stricter requirements to the property buyers and borrowers
1947 Ministry of Housing established
early 1980s
1939 -
difficult to find tenants for social housing and social housing had reputation of building demage, physical decay and social problems
1960s - 1970s
demand for housing exceeded the supply local authorities were under pressure to provide social housing
There was new trend to buy own housing among middle class
1951
late 1960s
Rent Act , older and privately owned rented housing began to turn into slums
housing shortage was not a problem anymore but more about housing prices
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs closed
1980s increase in the number of private cooperative housing association
mid 1970s 1960s Affluence and wages grew dramatically and those people left their rented flats and apartments
2001
economic recession (first oil crisis) , unemployment, house price stagnation and decline of new houses built
HOUSING HISTORY It is to understand the general history of housings in Denmark. The history tells that Denmark have gone through many changes that responded from the period’s conditions.
2005-2007 New scheme experiments, for residents in social housing to buy their home either as a freehold flat or as part of a cooperative housing scheme
recent years Recent years have been characterised by continuous worsening of social and ethnical segregation problems in the social housing &increasing demand for owner occupied dwellings
Upsalagade 20-26 STREET
SITE
CHOSEN SITE One of the important reason for choosing the site was the location being right in the centre of Copenhagen to investigate the role of urban living.
2km
Østre Anlæg
Botanisk Have
Kongens Have
Fælledparken
Holmens Kirkegård
2KM WITHIN THE SITE The circle indicates 2km distance from the site. Within that 2km, there are six major green spaces that allows the programme to benefit.
Garnisons Kirkegård
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Green area Site
Offices Roads Residential area
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ACCESS TO THE SITE Being in between two big green spaces, the site has good level of accessibility for both public and residents. Main road is a way to one of Copenhagen’s well-known train stations.
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Average throughout year
June (Summer)
WIND STUDY Prevailing wind comes from south-west direction to north-east in December (winter) and west to east in June (summer).
December (winter)
Housing
Housing
Offices on Gfloor
Housing
Offices on Gfloor
SITE ELEVATION A
AND SITE SECTION
2 1 Office
City Apartment Residents (Housing)
Restaurants
Housing
1. Site elevation NE SCALE 1: 2000 Each square grid shows approximately 10m*10m
28-30m
2. Site section
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True Bumblebees True Bumblebees are members of genus Bombus which have meaning ‘blooming’’
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Cuckoo Bumblebees
Cuckoo Bumblebees are members of genus Psithyrus which have meaning ‘murmuring’. They look like True Bumblebees but have softer buzz
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1. Bombus lucorum
20.campestris
2. lucorum
21.campestris
3. terrestris
22.campestris
4.terrestris
23. Bombus lapidarius
5. hortorum
24. lapidarius
6.jonellus
25.ruderarius
7.jonellus
26.ruderarius
8.ruderatus
27.pratorum
9.ruderatus
28.pratorum
10.ruderatus
29.sylvarum
11. Psithyrus rupestris
30.monticola
12.rupestris
31.Bombus soroeensis
13.sylvestris
32.soroeensis
14.sylvestris
33.distinguendus
15.bohemicus
34.muscorum
16.bohemicus
35.pascuorum
17.vestalis
36.pascuorum
18.vestalis
37.pascuorum
19.barbutellus
38.humilis 39.subterraneus 40.subterraneus
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Bumblebees have several features that makes them different from honey bees. It is known that bumbleebees generally are friendlier than honeybees and they do not sting unless they feel severe danger. Bumblebees are usually more furrier, colourful and larger than honeybees. There are numersous studies on Bumblebees since their behaviour are very much predictable.
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Cuckoo bumblebees behave slightly differently than True bumblebees. They do not work for colony which means they do not secrete wax and don’t have pollen baskets. Since Cuckoo bumblebees are inquiline of Bombus, meaning they live in the home of another species (Bombus) and consume their food. It also means larvae of Cuckoo bumblebees are fed by worker bees of Bombus.
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BUMBLEBEES Bumblebees do have different types of bee within the same category. Psithyrus behave differently from Bombus speices.
workers produced Colony is developed (Nest sometimes are taken over by Psithyrus)
Nest initiation
young queens and males are produced Queen foraging
Mating happens (males die)
pollen load
Second colony cycle
Queen overwintering (hibernation)
1. inactive 2. sunning 3.eating pollen 4.nest finding 5.collecting pollen 6.collecting nectar 7.flying April
May
Behaviour of Terrestris queens after hibernation
LIFE CYCLE OF BUMBLEBEES
June
Since there were no frames in the traditonal skeps, honey was collected simply using sticks to let out bees out from their honey comb, However, common removal method involved inhumane ways to get rid of bees. Colonies usually resulted in death by drowning or suffocation, Once the skep was emptied, it was replaced by new colonies. Also, When the skep was overcrowded, bees tried to swarm around the skep to find new hive.
The form of beekeeping varies accoring to the material use. When brick is used, it was normally an arch or straight wall while clay or stone had different types of shapes. Remaining bee boles nowadays are used to store decorations or small statues.
Traditional way of collecting honey
Skep stand
Bee Boles
Bee Alcove
Bee Shelters
Bee Houses
Winter Storage
Most of the skeps were placed outdoor so they needed to be protected from wind and rain. Often, this was done by putting straw protections and clay. Also, most people did not place their skeps directly on the floor but instead they created the stand or benches that could also help to protect skeps from damp grounds. Perhaps this was the beginning of making beekeeping box we use nowadays.
Bee boles are the most survived bee keeping because they remain in old gardens. ‘Bole’ can be translated in several ways which has its origin from Scots meaning ‘a recess in a wall’. A bee bole is a integrated part of wall which allows beekeepers to store their skeps. Normally bee boles are faced south-east to gain early sunlight to make bees start their days earlier. This form of beekeeping has developed from bee stand which was a furniture level and to finally integrating it to a wall. Integrating a wall made extra protection for bees from wind and rain.
More developed form of beekeeping was having bee alcoves. Although it remains as same family as bee boles, there are some different characteristics from bee boles. Like how bee boles were design to face southeast, alcoves also were designed in such a way. However, unlike bee boles, alcoves belonged to rich families. Many of them were made out of stones and were integrated with their walls.
One of the most common way of keeping bees were having bee shelters. They were usually roofed for protection and lean-to structure. The bee shelter that survived until nowadays are those that were made from stone. Unlike bee boles and alcoves, they are additional structure that didn’t needed to be inserted on a wall which made it easier for people to have them. In usually cases, each slate shelf could have held up to three skeps because of their heaviness.
Bee house was a more of architecture level while other types remained as furniture or only part of houses. It was a free-standing building which the main purpose was to keep bees inside. Beekeepers would usually go inside for inspection and collection of honey. Many of bee houses could hold up to 20-30 bee hives. The skeps were on shelves and bees would enter the house through regular openings outside the wall and to individual hive entrances. Since not many people could afford a small house for bees or perhaps number of bee hives that’s stored inside the house, this type of bee keeping were only found in big estate housing.
Winter storage was essential to keep bees alive. In autumn, beekeepers would empty the lightest and heaviest skeps because light skep meant that bee wouldn’t have sufficient honey to go through winter and heavy skep was to collect honey. Hive that weren’t either heavy or light would need extra winter protection. Easy way of winter protection was providing layers of straw around the skep therefore protecting them from cold weather. Many of them in fact were placed inside of dairy farm and barns. Having hives in a cool and dark place, would discourage the bees from consuming their honey before they could replenish them in the spring.
HISTORY OF BEEKEEPING Bees have been around since ancient times and beekeeping method have evolved throughout time. From stand it has finally come to the stage of free-standing space for bees.
MODERN DAYS’ BEEKEEPING After invention of beekeeping box, it became easier to control bees for harvesting purpose. Honey is collected in ways that diagrams show and many bee farms adapt such method.
BEE FARM VISIT: BYBI Visiting bee farm in the city centre of Copenhagen helped the project to understand space distribution in the bee farm building. It starts from public and as it goes further there are more of private and workstations for bee keepers.
URBAN HONEY Visiting bee farm in the city centre of Copenhagen helped the project to understand space distribution in the bee farm building. It starts from public and as it goes further there are more of private and workstations for bee keepers.
BEE SWARMING
Usally upto 60% of bee of a colony swarm. Swarming happens when bees are finding new homes. In most cases, new born queen kills the unborn queens to bee the queen status for initial hive (prime swarm). On the other hand, the new queens may also swarm even though the size of swarm might be smaller (after swarm). 1. Leaving the old hive to find temporarily location 2. Finding area for permanent locations. 3. Moving to final location
Summary (average) of bee swarming behaviour from speed, direction, angle studies.
Direction
Top section tend to have more lead in swarming behaviour. Middle-top comprising most of number of bees, they have strong willingness to head to the direction they are swarming.
Bottom bees usually have more speed than the top bees. However, most of top bees tend to head to the direction while bottom bess have less of those facing the direction
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SWARMING Visiting bee farm in the city centre of Copenhagen helped the project to understand space distribution in the bee farm building. It starts from public and as it goes further there are more of private and workstations for bee keepers.
FRAGMENT MODEL
01 Brumleby Housing Brumleby
Year: 1853 - 1857
Chosen Site
Housing type: social housing + co-housing Architect: Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll
Brumbleby was initially designed for Medical Association housing scheme and a direct response of spread of cholera in the inner city. Therefore, one of the main purpose was to design housing unit that could provide high quality living at relatively affordable costs. These 240 housing units had close doorways and divided into two floors. Common facilities for the tenants included a kindergarten, a bathhouse and a meeting hall and the first co-operative store in Copenhagen. In 1990s, these spaces were refurbished and given private bathroom.
Communal Garden Route Individual Garden
BRUMLEBY HOUSING This housing inspired the programme to have both shops and housing. The idea of sharing activity among residents may suggest additonal role of housing.
02 Nyboder Housing Nyboder Year: 1853 - 1857
Chosen Site
Housing type: social housing + co-housing Architect: Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll
. Nyboder was built in 1631 by young architect Hans Van Steenwin with King Christian IV’s commission. It was originally built for men who served the nation. Although they look like rows of single hoses, they are two units facing each other with one or two bedrooms. Each unit has one or two bedrooms and shared passage and cooking hearth. Additional rows of units were added in the 18th centuries.
MAP OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Blue line indicates the whole Copenhagen while yellow and red shows roads and train route.
HOUSING UNIT There would be housing units with one bedroom, two bedroom and three bedroom.
WORKING
LIVING
REPRODUCING
HELPING
CO-LIVING
ATTRACTING
ATTRACTING
PROGRAMME PROPOSAL
Design Methodology
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1) Each side is greenspace, thereby not blocking the paths for bees
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2) Pedestrian and vechicle roads around the site gives best public access to shops 3) Thinking of building on two side one of the options would be having two parts on those two sides
MASSING STUDY
SHOP ROUTE/ PUBLIC ROUTE
IN/OUT
Train Station
residential area
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IN/OUT
Main road
MORE ACCESSIBLE
LESS ACCESSIBLE
CIRCULATION STUDY [PUBLIC] Since it is for public and shopping area, the entrace would be in front of the most busiest road. Circulation has to be relatively simple compared to housing route.
RESIDENTS’ ROUTE/ PRIVATE ROUTE
IN/OUT IN/OUT
Train Station
residential area
NW
ONE ENCLOSED SPACE
ONE ENCLOSED SPACE
Main road
MORE ACCESSIBLE
LESS ACCESSIBLE
ONE ENCLOSED SPACE
TWO ENCLOSED SPACE
ONE ENCLOSED SPACE
TWO ENCLOSED SPACE
THREE ENCLOSED SPACE
TWO ENCLOSED SPACE
FIVE ENCLOSED SPACE
ZERO ENCLOSED SPACE
FOUR ENCLOSED SPACE
CIRCULATION STUDY [HOUSING] Entrance being in the second busiest road, this study is to achieve optimal choice for private route.
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MAIN ROAD
HONEY SHOP PATHWAY/STORAGE WORKSTATION (HONEY MACHINES) BEE HIVE/ RAMP
MASSING DEVELOPMENT [GROUND FLOOR] Learning from bee farm visit in copenhagen, as it goes further from shop entrace, it is more private (workstation) area.
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2nd Floor
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LEGEND 1 Three bedroom housing 2 Two bedroom housing 3 One bedroom housing
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4 Public area 5 Bee entrace 6 Bee hive 7 Honey shops’ entrance 8 Ramp garden
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Hanging flower
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Bee hives
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Ramp garden
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Bee entrance
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DESIGN ITERATION Blue line indicates private route while red shows public route to honey shops.
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DESIGN STRATEGY Each spaces are designed around garden. Garden is allocated for each housing unit which people have to grow certain flowers for bees.
HOUSING UNIT There would be housing units with one bedroom, two bedroom and three bedroom.
mesh walls
mesh openings in different sizes
CONCEPT: MESH LAYERING
Fabric sails prevents direct sunlight coming through glass facades. However, for this project, meshed facades would be used to allow different sizes of bee.
Precedent works Phoenix Public Library Architect: Will Bruder
MESH LAYERING Diagrams explain where worker bees can go through and where queen bee can inhabit. Different size of mesh openings allow different bees’ access.
BEE AND PEOPLE POPULATION This would most likely to have impact on the design. Bees usually do activities up in the sky. Therefore, spaces for bees would be up in the sky and people inhabit ground floor.
Main structural element that holds bee hives
They are clustered together to support heavy bee hives
STRUCTURE UNIT Each structual unit will be holding hives that are built by bees
Home for people
Home for bees
FRAGMENT STUDY
connection bar
bee-living area
people-living area
DESIGN ITERATION MODEL By combining two living spaces (bee and human) the design was to propose a symbiotic relationship by physically brinigng them together.
fabric mesh
structural hive
HIGH BEE DENSITY
Bees’ preferred height (15-25m above ground)
housing
housing
CENTRAL HIVE
honey shops/ public area
bee-living structure
people living
BEE AND PEOPLE Yellow provides structures for bees to start hives and blue would be housing for people
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LEGEND 1 Three bedroom housing 2 One bedroom housing 3 Swarming cloud
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DESIGN ITERATION [SECOND FLOOR] Scale 1:150
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0 corners
Layering would be naturally connected if there is no corners. Therefore, this design uses circular forms for layers.
4 corners
‘4 + a’ corners
MESH LAYERING APPLIED Layers would have different opening sizes.
BEE-LIVING SPACE To minimize the distruption, simple scaffolding is designed to fit the growing hives.
FLYING BEES
PEOPLE LIVING
GARDEN FOR PEOPLE AND BEES
BEES INHABITING
BEE AND PEOPLE It shows how bees and people share spaces and inhabit
toilet/shower
kitchen Mini garden
bedroom
Mesh fabric
Hemok roof garden
timber panels
Mini garden
entrance
FINAL DESIGN [HOUSING] With the green roof, it achieves attractive environment for both human and bees.
Precedent works Centre Culturel Jean-Marie Tjibaou Architect: Renzo Piano
SCALE 1:300