RE-RE-SAMPLING

June the 12th-14th, Alexander Trimboli and Petter Forsberg will organize the workshop RE-RE-SAMPLING in Arkitekturmuseet Stockholm. More info to come.

Railway platforms with cellular roofstructures

Dynamic model of railway platforms.

In order to capture the aesthetics and dynamics embedded in railways this model is set up according to some basic rules. Platforms are allways tangent to track, they adapt to the landscape and injects the sites with new types of space and connections.

Diagram of an ordinary platform configuration and a dynamic model allowing different configurations according to a number of site specific parameters as well as design principles.

The concept intends to visualize the movement and dynamics in a system of platform configurations. A system which grows in to a cellular roofstructure with pods that distribute light and sound. Parameters are controlling length, width and height as well as curvature, position and intensity. They are set up based on rules of optimization as well as design principles.

Cellular roofstructure

Facade extension_02

I developed the facade concept further - the floor is now an intricate part of the facade system. Still an extension to an existing building - this time an office building from the 70's part of the Public Service cluster on gärdet in Stockholm. The basic concept is that of materializing radiowaves and at the same dematerialize an existing building as well as increase the workspace. Part of the facade(and ceiling plan as well) Elevation

Section showing facade/floor meeting distributing natural light into the ceiling which be diffused with artifical lighting. Internal partitions and communication are part of the same system.

Laser cut models showing the twisted lamellas. The system, which was modelled in Generative Components, controll curvature and rotation making it possible to adjust the facade according to views and shading.

The lamellas rotate and transform into a flat floor KTH Arkitekturskolan 2007. Architecture Information Tutor: Ulrika Karlsson

Facade extension

Initial sketches of a facade extension to an existing office building. Multiple layers increase the depth allowing new functions - vertical communication and outdoor areas. A restaurant on the roofterrace uses the extension as entrance/stairway.

After studying the principal rules of minimal surface modeling, a model was set up in GC - rigorously controlling each part of the geometry allowing for parameters to be changed according to the sytem of stairway as well as more intuitive spatial design.

Laser sintered model showing the layers mirrored in the glass facade incresing the depth further more.

Project in collaboration with Justus Dietz at Arkitekturskolan KTH, Studio AIF, 2007. Tutor: Ulrika Karlsson.

One source of inspiration for this project was a group of coral skeletons that were stacked together like a flower bouquet. Each skeleton has the shape of a cone with a smaller radius at the base that grows towards the top. The skeletons are stacked together in six corners thus creating a pattern of irregular hexagons. After the stacking and cutting of aggregations of hexagons some interesting patterns emerged in the sections.

Parameters controlled by a cutting surface A static set of hexagons were cut with a dynamic double curved cutting surface. The coral like cone structure is single curved and unrolled and manufactured in a rational way.

Section Elevations I set up a dynamic model in Generative Components making the cone structure dynamic and the cutting plane static

the large difference in performance is that straight cutting plans can be used to create a similar effect as before creating straight wall elements with a transformation in porosity.

"Uncut" model creating a dynamic roofscape. The systems resembles a honey comb structure and acts self supporting in large span structure.

Project in collaboration with Tove Leander and Magnus Hofverberg at Arkitekturskolan KTH, Studio AIF 2006. Tutors: Jonas Runberger and Thomas Wingate.