Tourbillon

Bucharest, August, 2013

​The Innovative Prototyping @ Dynamic Fields – Responsive Architecture Workshop, which took place in Bucharest, Romania July 16-29, resulted in five innovative prototypes. The workshop was benefited by the presence of Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, founder of AA Design Research Lab London and one of the most important figures in the world of computational design. The workshop’s purpose was the understanding of how the advancement of digital technology is helping architects respond to the complexity of the environment surrounding them.

Through repetitive and alternative cuts applied on different geometries we have modeled multiple performance results and for our final presentation those shapes that offer two specific qualities – vertical performance combined with control. The gradual testing of the various shapes started with squares and went as far as interconnected spirals and each step has allowed us to fully comprehend the implications  that the nature of the cut-line has on the final result. Our project has therefore crystallized under the form of a large scale responsive surface to air flow that fully exhibits the potential and synergy between a simple action – cutting, a single material – paper, and digital technologies.

Project goal Obtain a geometry control landscape through cutting and surface optimization with an expected performance in a dynamic field.

Function Reactive environment system that succeeds in transforming a planar surface in 3D landscape under the force of wind making a volume from a plane. > System < A system of contorted and connected spirals through whose geometry the design performs optimally. > Materials <   Metallic coated paper, fans, Arduino.

parametric paper kinetic installation 200cm x 60cm, @Parametrica Digi Fab Lab School
Team: Eliza Culea, Irina Ilie, Ioana Binica, Andrei Olteanu, Orsolya Gunthner, Sabin Serban, Andrei Mitisor, Mihai Aostacioaie, Katerina Ivanova, Sarah Safaou