Students:
Christian Erl (German),
Fonteini Kontoleon (Greece),
Vineet Vora (India),
Liqun Zhao (China)
Tutor:
Theodore Spyropoulos
Description:
This project interrogates the very definition of the nature of adaptive and self-regulatory systems that encourage an emergent interplay of human and material agency capable of forming a concrete architectural proposal. Thus, it seeks to explore the intrinsic capabilities of matter in the generation of form, by creating a prototypical structural system driven by a global agency of changing load conditions, materialised through CNC fabrication based on sensory feedback mechanisms. A system like this can provide open access to its information while its organisation is closed allowing construction, reconstruction and auto-healing processes to take place in a responsive manner to environmental perturbations. However, along with creating a structure it is intended to revisit the idea of space frame concepts and challenge its conventional notions. As such, the resulting system will be comprised of non discrete elements through varying densities resulting in surface, structure and space.
