FAB FEST - Previous Pavilions

FAB FEST INTERNATIONAL FABRICATION COMPETITION AND PUBLIC FESTIVAL PREVIOUS PROJECTS FAB FEST '16 & FAB FEST '17

Glastonbury-in-the-City 2016

FAB FEST - a new international fabrication festival which is held in University of Westminster and hosted by Fabrication Lab Westminster.

The event is celebration of design and making,that generates a unique urban festival to start the summer. The challenge for participants is to design and fabricate pavilions that will facilitate this urban summer festival – a mini ‘Glastonbury-in-the-City’. The pavilions are made from cardboard and a range of other lightweight, cheap, recyclable materials, provided by the Fabrication Laboratory. Teams can use either simple hand tools or the Lab’s digital fabrication machines to make the pavilions. Each team of five students are mentored by either an academic or a practicing professional from the field of architecture and the built environment.

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IN BLOOM University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: FOSTER + PARTNERS: Carlos Bausa Miriam Dall-Igna

TEAM: Toby Plunkett Mihai Chiriac Samah Elbosaty Fatemah Maraghi Edward Rawle Innes Shelley

Through a structure that resembles that of a blooming star,in bloom will bring radiance to Ambika P3 like never before. The result from hours of research, studies and exploration into the worlds of architecture, natural science and mathematics; In Bloom is fabricated to capture the attention and curiosity of the FAB FEST attendees.

A CNC-cut geometric Elysium, light installation and sanctuary for meditating on life, the world and all else, In Bloom is a 3m spherical structure assembled from 60 identical cardboard components. The interlocking modules are connected to form a structure reminiscent of C60 molecule, a molecule detected in deep space, cosmic light and in the formation of new stars.

The concept behind this pavilion is to create an installation that is not only appreciated for its aesthetical beauty, but an installation that also allows for interaction. The structure invites visitors in and encourages them to interact, explore and to immerse themselves within the space.

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DRAGON SPINE CUHK, Hong Kong, China MENTORS: Adam Fingrut Kristof Crolla

TEAM: THeng Erin Jiang Yitao Poby Zhu Alex Kelvin Li Hsuan Liang Shiyu Sherry Ma Haiqi Estella Deng

The Dragon Spine Pavilion is a highly expressive corrugated cardboard pavilion that shows dynamic variations through logical steps of actions: move, scale and rotate. The basic units are two three-segment polylines. While similar in folding angles and length proportions, the rotation center of the two units varies, thus creating the up and down whirlwind-like kinetic distortions. The highest spline of the pavilion, consisting of all the 50 degree an- gle junctions, is highlighted by triangular connectors and coincides with the imagination of a dragon’s spine. Each segment of the polyline units comprises several smaller pieces interlocking into each other, not only strengthening the structure but adding expressive character to the pavilion as well. When touching the ground, interlocking connectors of semicircle shape are applied. Formed with the similar logic, a bench is added along one side of the landing component, further stabilizing the structure and inviting interface between the pavilion and the visitors.

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CUNY CUNY, New York, USA MENTORS: Joseph Vidich Phillip Anzalone Michael DiCarlo

TEAM: Allon Morgan Mimu Sakuma Heraldi Sadmojo Shadeen Dixon Claudia Tupayachi Michael Di Carlo

Our concept is developing a space for both physical and virtual interaction. The pavilion will have people to move through it in a particular way (physically changing their space) as well have Google Cardboards embedded in it, allowing the users to enter a virtual reality (We are securing a donation from Google).

All of this happens in a grotto like structure!

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SPIDER University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: Maria Kramer Richard Difford

TEAM: Sabina Blasiotti Zhangeldy Kaupynbayev Pawel Obuchowski Gilberto Paolucci Maciej Sobieraj

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MakeMake University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: Yota Adilenidou Alessandro Ayuso

TEAM: Sara Daaboul Stephanie Georgiou Radima Gudieva Su Hua Carole Tan Amin Tashayoienejad Lai Chan Nabil Benelabed Kitty Heston Salwah Joonus Marilyn Masen Linda Tentori

“MakeMake� is the name of a dwarf planet, it has a diameter approximately two thirds of Pluto.

The pavilion is re-creation of a planetarium. The geometry of the structure emerges from the interaction between two spheres in space. The first sphere attracts the sub-divaded surface on the other sphere. Half of the sub-surfaces are extruded outwards and other half inwards in the direction of the attractor sphere.

The perfect geometry of sphere is mutated and its subdivision creates opening which allows light to circulate inside and outside of the sphere, giving the impression of constellation.

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POP-UP CITY

PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES

PARTICIPATING PRACTICES

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CONCEPT We live in a world of increasingly rapid change, with cities growing larger and more fluid than ever. We are confronted by extraordinary developments in technology offering new possibilities for interacting with, experiencing and making our world. At the same time we face complex social and political upheaval often leaving controversy, uncertainty and division. The way we live is evolving quickly and so must our ideas about architecture if we are to adapt to the emerging needs of our cities.

Architecture helps shape the world and as the architects of tomorrow, we will be the ones to initiate, design and build the cities of the future.

It is up to us to generate the image of what a better city might be - more open, social, pleasurable, surprising, harmonious, multi-cultural?

for us together to imagine, and for one week only, make our own transient Pop-up City.

We hope you will have fun working with the Fab Lab team, your Mentors, and our digital tools making extraordinary pop-up structures.

Even if your ideas are just suggestive, built only from temporary, lightweight materials, and not yet possible at a larger scale, they may work extremely well within the Pop-up festival city built by the FAB FEST ’17 community of designer/makers. Though only existing for a short period of time, they might just become the catalyst for future lasting change.

The theme for this year’s FAB FEST is ‘Pop-up City’, and it gives us the chance now to contribute and build your ideas for the cities of tomorrow. It invites teams to try their hand at shaping the future of how we make, live and celebrate life, not in the way that someone else wants you to, but the way that you do. This is an opportunity to propose and develop a glimpse of unique designs for the future, and 28

PAVILIONS

“NONAME”

QHT Prize

University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: ARUP: Paul Thorpe

TEAM: Zahra Mansoor Sukaina Hussain Kryzta Castillo Aamirah Munshi Elham Ansaripour Ugne Kiseliovaite Dilan Kalayci Gabija Gumbeleviciute

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SPECIAL THANKS: Amad Hussain

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WOZUMA

QHT Prize

University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: Sheppard Robson: Andreas Ieridis Pedro Carvalho Maria Prodromou

TEAM: Maciej Worosilak Zuzanna Sliwinska Wojciech Karnówka Daria Illarionova Bibissara Alpys Zlatina Nedeva Inna Kurtlakova

In our fast-changing society fullfilled with online activities, lack of privacy and intimacy is striking. Shining cities encourage us to share, show and shout leave no space for “here and now” relationships. Our pavilion aims to become a place for people to meet in real world with real words.

Lightweight structure investigates in bending possibilites of Correx creating delicate, semi-transparent space avaliable for everyone.

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I, OF THE STORM University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: Ryder Architecture: Andrea Deng Andra Antone

TEAM: Simon Mclanaghan Sash Onufriev Zhangeldy Kaupynbayev Ankur Chhabra Jevon Atmabrata

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Zahra Mansoor Elham Ansaripour Thomas Grunberg Illia Marynin

The form began as an interpretation of the chaotic social and political events around the world today; Brexit, Trump, the refugee crisis and tensions with Russia and North Korea are but a few of the examples. Despite all of this we are all stuck living in our “echo-chambers” of targeted advertising and social media algorithms that enable us to stay oblivious to the chaos around. As such our pavilion is an allusion to the eye of the hurricane; the calmest spot of any storm is in the middle and while you are commuting through the city – engaged in your smartphone or plugged into your endless supply of on-demand music you are in a bubble of calm in a world of calamity.

We chose to construct a modular pavilion that would visually engage the public and showcase the finest aesthetic aspect of architecture: geometry. By allowing people to be fascinated and to explore the city in a new way, we hope to remind them of what it means to be human and what our role is within the city.

You are a human being. Your life has value.

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PLEXUS University of Westminster, London, UK MENTOR: Jestico + Whiles: Richard Rose

TEAM: Asif Khan Rim Kalsoum Zehra Yumsak Tahin Khan Zakaria Tehami

We discussed a few ideas with references to Jan Gehl and how people interact with spaces. The key principle being thresholds where we don’t perceive what’s above a certain height and are invited by stepped facades as opposed to bland ones.

Far from developed we have something along the lines of: The idea of using staggered and recessed modular block elements that can replicate an intimate space where everyone feels welcome inside and outside the pavilion at lower levels. Plants and other inviting small objects can give a sense of scale and add intimacy to the space.

The higher up the pavilion we go... we can suggest more abstract spaces that continue to grow with the idea of an ever expanding city. Elements could possibly expand or contract according to use.

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Flow-ER

DS Smith Prize

University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: Colman Architects: Lola Adeokun David Liddell Emma Heyett Clare Hill

TEAM: Sneha Baptista Amad Hussain Nouha Hansen

In response to this year’s FAB FEST theme Pop-up City, we would like to bring some attention to a very important part of the city; the green spaces!

Cities around the world are growing at a rapid speed, and London is no exception. Big cities are popular as they bring together diverse people, ideas and processes making them exciting places to live and work. How can we make sure to maintain a healthy environment?

In London, air pollution poses a major health risk causing the early death of up to 9000 people a year due to long-term exposure to NOx gasses and particulate matters. We are curious to reduce the impact of several decades or industry and transport emissions of pollutants into the air, and have been inspired by the WENDY pavilion made of a special nano-material as an adaptable skin and filters the air. The material creates a clean air flow and depicts biomimicry form. This nano material has great potential as the adaptable skin can be fitted commonly throughout the city for example to bus stops to act as cleaning hubs in busy transport spots.

Our pavilion with its material and with its nature inspired geometry represents how human activity can support nature in providing the best possible environment.

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PoPo University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: Dexter Moren Associates: Robin Bentley Alexander Hamilton Kassym Ulykbanov Anais Nievas

TEAM: Polina Novikova Polina Bouli

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PALMEC DESIGNS

Architecture Prize

University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: Dexter Moren Associates: Andrea Capiello Valerio de Santis Lawrence Rocha Laurynas Deveikis

DS Smith Prize

TEAM: Clarissa Evans Alistair Backhouse Mirabell Schmidt Paresh Parmar Elizabeth Gilligan

We are interested in creating spaces that allow for reoccupation of uninhabitable space and combat human pollution through minimising construction waste. Desertification is an increasing phenomenon in nearly all desert regions. Shifting sands cause established communities inhabiting these edge conditions to relocate. With an increasing global population, how can this space be re-inhabited and reclaimed? We wish to explore the concept of a modular design system using future technologies. The delight of our pavilion is created from a passive topological design respondent to environment and socio-economic issues of the site. The cashless society is the future era and the loss of inhabitable spaces and the depletion of fossil fuels make us believe space and energy is the currency of wealth. Our pavilion will be an experimental journey for the public to interact with the changing concept of these key themes.

We began experimenting with correx for its durability, transparency and internal structure. Through the use of a triangular brick module, the pavilion can be re-assembled in desert climates and filled with sand to temporarily hold it in place while the pavilion is inhabited. This can easily be disassembled, flat packed and reassembled at a new site, being both lightweight and material efficient. The template for each piece was designed to maximise the use of each correx sheet, making a more environmentally conscious design. The amount of sand can be adjusted depending on the shelter and privacy desired, and the pavilion would over time slowly fill up with sand carried by natural desert winds creating unique patterns in the correx.

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TEMPLATE AND OFFCUTS

ASSEMBLY

FIXING AND SEALING

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SAND FILLING

CONSTRUCTION

ARCHIGAMI University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: Maria Kramer

TEAM: Beatriz Cecilia Jimenez Garrote Jerzy Gudjonsson Bibiana Malawakula Cameron McKay Doli Likomanova

The concept derives from modular origami technic, which was explored extensively in a small models.

The structure allows maximum flexibility and can mould into various forms and folded into a flatpack, making it easy to transport.

The final piece is a ‘dynamic arch’, with one ‘foot’ on the ground unfolding towards the sky.

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KINETIC SKIN University of Westminster, London + University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK MENTORS: Yota Adilenidou (UoW) Asterios Agkathidis (Liverpool)

UoW TEAM: Seda Eldek Anne-Mari Maibach Gabrielle Sarmiento Celine Singh

LIVERPOOL TEAM: Yuhan Feng Xiaoyu Li Gu Qi Yiyang Sang Ruiting Wang Yuzhuo Wang Kaiwen Xu

Our pavilion proposal will host two sleeping/relaxation capsules that could potentially be placed in the city. The tradition of living capsules is very well known from Japan. A surface/skin will fold in order to create two capsules. The first one is a pixelated structure. Tubes are moving vertically to the skin-wall to create different topologies and interact with users’ bodies. The moving tubes provide perforation and light penetration to the capsule. The second capsule acts as a folding blanket that wrinkles creating space for the users and changing its topology according to the adjacent bodies while connecting to the first capsule. The pattern that creates the folding topology appears as a semi-transparent grid that brings light in and out.

The skin will change role from external to internal, creating exterior walls and roof and playing with light permeability. It will also serve as internal connections and dividers among the two capsules, providing in-between walls, floors, ceilings for the modules. The skin can also transform to bed, sitting, closets, and artificial lighting. The kinesis of the skin will also allow for the transformability of the capsule’s size, stretching it or squeezing it in order to accommodate a different number of people sometimes connecting more than one capsules to a bigger element, taller or wider.

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GREEN UTOPIA

QHT Prize

University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: -

TEAM: Madgalena Harmacinska Rukhsar Zahid Deepthi Balloo Jadene Aguilar Justine Aguilar Abdulrahman Hassan Madzia Harmacinska

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Matas Olendra

The concept behind this suspended structure is inspired by the increasing demand and lack of green spaces such as gardens. As part of this pop up city, we are proposing an artificial elevated grid that in an a utopian world would be used to cultivate and grow plants or food. Our ‘floating garden’ intends to connect the city to the sky using nature.

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BAIA

Hawthorn Prize

University of Westminster, London, UK MENTOR: Matthew Haycocks

Professorial Prize

TEAM: Sandra Appiah Koomson Heather Gurarslan Sule Acar Andra Nemet Jade Ocampo

To us London is all about the people that inhabit it so we want to create something that allows people to interact with it and as well as each other.

We would like our pop up to be fun so our aim is to construct a portable theatre/music box exploring the material’s resistance and flexibility.

We plan to create all aspects of the theatre/performance space so an entrance, seating etc using a modular system and then some mechanisms for changing sets and backdrops on stage. We intend to take the Pavilion outside the building and into the real word before it is shown at the festival to be used as a performance space where people in the city can play but also collaborate with us to be part of the project. We hope to inspire creativity and bring some colour to the FAB FEST.

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MARS University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: Richard Difford Miriam Dall’Igna TEAM: Edward Rawle Alejandro Gutierrez Fabregat Hristina Stoyanova Tom Kendrew Urszula Bajcer

UOW Science & Technology MENTORS: Epaminondas Kapetanios Anastassia Angelopoulou TEAM: Danislav Lyubenov Oliver Seymour Lewis Clark Tausifa Shabbir

F+P: Josef Musil Miriam Dall’Igna Octavian Gheorghiu Xiaoming Yang

For some time Foster + Partners have been working with the European Space Agency to develop 3D printable habitation concepts for deployment on the Moon. They have also been participating in an ongoing NASA-backed competition to propose habitation methods that could be used on Mars. These concepts have now been developed to a stage where they can be further tested through working prototypes.

FAB FEST’17 Pop-Up City sets out to explore unusual and ground breaking architectural concepts, so the MARS Habitation project fits our brief perfectly. Working closely with Foster + Partners and the departments of Computer Science and Engineering, the FAB FEST team is going to develop a pavilion that will become an artificial environment to imitate Mars and simulate the surroundings that are needed to train the robots to navigate and build the conditions for human habitation.

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VOLUTA (A.R.T.) University of Westminster, London, UK MENTORS: Eva Magnisali Marios Tsiliakos Spyros Efthymiou

TEAM: Calvin Sin Laura Nica Wojtek Karnowka Zhini Poh Constantina Avraamides Josh Ricketts Drew Yates Martin Vasilev

PARTNERS: AKT II Structural Engineers Rhino McNeel

VOLUTA is an interactive light installation, speculating on the way robotic choreography and interaction alters spatial perception, through a poetic approach on space navigation. The pavilion spirals around a 6-axis industrial robotic arm, which scans its surroundings and through sensors, translates geometrical data into different light colour transmission.

Parameters such as material translucency and controlled transparency through perforation were essential drivers during the design process.

Overall, the pavilion is a result of a conversation between the properties of the selected material and the robotic fabrication process. A bottomup design approach was followed, where form finding was the outcome of constant observation and feedback deriving from the proposed fabrication process.

VOLUTA was fabricated using digital fabrication tools, as well as a 7- axes industrial robotic arm for the pre-assembly of the bespoke modules that form the pavilion. Precise wire tensioning of each unique element facilitated the on-site assembly of the parametrically generated global geometry.

VOLUTA is the outcome of interdisciplinary collaboration between the Architectural Robotics Lab of fABE Fabrication Lab, the Institute of Experimental Architecture of the University of Innsbruck and AKT II Structural Engineers.

VOLUTA is part of the Architectural Robotics Theatre (A.R.T.) series of projects, kindly enabled by the Quintin Hogg Trust. A.R.T. is an action research project aimed at developing, analysing and improving the role of industrial robotic arms on the teaching and practice of Architecture, through a series of experimental, design-led interventions, workshops and performances. For more information please visit fablab.london/art

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RAY CATCHER University of Westminster, London, UK MENTOR: Dr. Rosa Schiano-Phan

TEAM: Mehrdad Borna Daniel Owen Karan Patel Ula Bajcer Jin Lee

SUPPORT TEAM: Kristel Zarate Leon Cecilia Santos Hassan Jafri

The ‘Ray Catcher Pavilion’ is an inverse sun clock for the latitude of London (51.50° N, 0.127° W), intended as an educational pop-up city pavilion that showcases the importance of considering and understanding the environment in architectural design.

Through the careful positioning of openings within the pavilion panels, the position of the sun is tracked throughout the day, demonstrating how through the use of digital technologies and fabrication techniques both architectural drama and delight can be achieved.

Each hour of the day, the pavilion will render a different internal appearance, creating interest for visitors and replicating the time of day, similar to that of a sun clock.

This timely reminder demonstrates that the link between architecture and its environment, not only has the ability to create architectural poetry but also has a more important role and underlying message; highlighting the importance of understanding our natural environment in order to improve the comfort and performance of buildings.

The clock is ticking for humanity with the threat of climate change, and it is in current times that the performance of architecture and buildings is now more important than ever. We must embrace new technologies and draw on our knowledge of the environment to create beautiful architecture that responds better and is adaptable to our changing world, but still, maintains the ability to inspire and empower us.

We hope that this pavilion will inspire the consideration of the environment in architecture and most of all that you enjoy the experience, as architecture is about the experience of space.

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ESCAPE WORLD

Professorial Prize

University of Westminster, London, UK MENTOR: Benson Lau

TEAM: Deependra Pourel Sanjog Shrestha Bernadette Widjaja Daniela Park Claudia Danon Andrew Kukla Penny Tan Hadeel Mohamed

A tree in a box, visible yet distant, with all its benefits of food, shelter and life.An attempt to emulate the feeling of being under a tree in a closed space. A tree is nature’s way of supporting life and we believe that trees have to be saved and protected as city grows. Given the lack of availability of spaces to have green spaces inside cities, we should not shy from protecting every single tree in our neighborhood. This will help create pockets of green spots that are both public and private owned and help bring some life back to cities popping up tomorrow.

A tree in a box gives the significance to the tree while enhancing user experience as one sits under it. The walls of the box is raised over ground and preferably made as a green wall itself.

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Amidst the concrete jungle I stand overlooking the hue, cry and happiness the business of life taking toll on young and old.

Can I provide the enchantment my ancestor surpassed life, shelter and food and beyond Some sought rest, a few enlightened.

A shelter from sun, wind, rain and dust shimmering sun with my leaves the strong branches to ward off wind rain drops held on leaves cleanses the air all around.

Do I possess the power to change lives I know not, but peace is what you find beneath me Realize me, extend the apocalypse Come escape in the escape tree.

(Deependra Pourel)

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THE GLOBESCOPE

QHT Prize

UNIBO, Bologna, Italy MENTORS: Jacopo Gaspari Giulia Corazzi

People’s Prize

TEAM: Jenny Brasini Federica Di Fabrizio Giorgia Ferretti Lorenzo Indio Ruggiero Scommegna

The pavilion deals with the dynamic growth of contemporary cities where new buildings rise according to ever increasing needs that in most cases follow local visions and ambitions. Any single element of the pavilion ideally represents a piece of an imaginary city randomly arranged to figure the density of the built environment where tallest volumes – the longer elements – design the cities’ skyline. At the same time, these elements are used to suggest the visitors new perspectives and inviting to a reflection about how we look at future cities development. How do we face the challenges of tomorrow?

How the design strategy - if any - may tackle the issue of climate change? Which models shall we introduce to create liveable and comfortable cities? All the pavilion’s “telescope” invite to consider a multi-perspective approach.

The spherical form comes from the idea of an imaginary city that might be in any place of the globe facing different challenges but meeting the common ground of designing our future assuming the responsibility of conscious decisions.

The sphere is indeed a tribute to the work of Richard Buckmintser Fuller on geodetic forms that inspired our concept with a visionary approach looking forward to the progress while being concretely conscious of today limits.

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GJØA Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial Studies, Tromsø, Norway MENTOR: Eimear Tynan

TEAM: Lin Costa Bert De Jonghe Paolo Cirina Kristina Masytė

Our concept aims to highlight rising sea levels, increased industrialization, urbanization and migration in the Arctic. We do so by exploring potential visions of the north by taking The North East sea passage as an example. In doing so we explore the future consequences of such changes along Norwegian, Russian and Asian coastlines.

The North East passage is a route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This Arctic ocean shipping route follows Norwegian and Russian northern coastlines. The idea of this passage was born in the middle ages: Russian settlers called Pomors had been exploring it since the 11th century. Today the passage is known as an alternative seaway to China and India. Increased temperatures mean that this ice-free area allows for an extended season of sea travel between the West and East with the possibility of new Pop-Up cities for the future both on land and sea.

The extension of ice free coastlines in the Arctic facilitates easier transportation of extracted natural resources such as nickel, iron ore, cobalt, copper, phosphate, uranium and gold. Nowadays, a warming climate increasingly makes this extraction possible providing new jobs and exploitations.In addition, cargo ship emissions contribute to the greenhouse effect thus accelerating global warming which is accentuated in the Arctic. Another concern with increased traffic is the migration of “alien” plant and animal species carried on the hull of ships to fragile Arctic ecosystems.

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DESIGN MORPHINE

QHT Prize

Mixed MENTOR: Georgi Kunchev

TEAM: Monika Kalinowska Zlatko Yanakiev Zvonko Vugreshek

Contrary to the general approach to contemporary digital design, this pavilion puts the fabrication in the middle of the creation process, not at the end. Adding the final artistic burst after producing the components for the pavilion allows us to tackle one of the greatest concerns of creators and designers – the fundamental disconnect from the physical.

We achieved to bridge this gap by choosing an aggregation system that allowed free adding and subtracting of the elements - during and after the completion of the building process. We designed an initial core structure which will fulfill our expectations of the pavilion, provide everything necessary and will serve as a base for further development. After completion of the core, the next 30% of components are devoted to “Artistic Completion”. Outlines and volume were modified according to position of the pavilion in the hall, visitor approaches, path walks. Framing views and defining silhouettes. Keeping the pavilion adaptable to changes in the environment and suitable for expression of site-based artistic impulse.

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BIG CRUNCH

People’s Prize

ITU, Istanbul, Turkey MENTOR: Assoc.Prof.Dr. L. Figen Gül

QHT Prize

TEAM: Süheyla Müge Halıcı Aycan Yılmaz Çağlan Çelebi İnanc Şencan Ömer Can Bakan

The ultimate fate of the universe, the metric expansion of space eventually reverses and the universe recollapses ultimately causing the cosmic scale factor to reach zero or causing a reformation of the universe starting with another Big Bang.

Our aim was to develop a structure that can emerge/pop-up in leftover spaces of cities creating useful surfaces for informing people about urban contexts of daily life such as density of streets, important events, pedestrian flows, air pollution etc. A structure that forms just like a living being, adapting the existing urban environment, interacting with and affecting city life.

In order to give a growth and fracture effect the structure is designed as a double shell. To empower the cracking effect, triangle opennings are added on both shells. Shells are divided into patches and folding pieces are added to each one of them to bring them together. A waffle structure is designed in between the shells in order to empower its static equilibrium.

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TEAM TESSELLATE

People’s Prize

MEASI Academy of Architecture, Chennai, India MENTOR: Mohamed Khalid Maniyali Ravoof

Hawthorn Prize

TEAM: Anjana.M.K Mohamed Abrar Mohammed Aashik Mohammed Riyaz Khan Niketha Chinniah Nikita Anand Sahla Mariam Sameen Rafath

To go with the theme of pop up city, we’ve chosen the concept of modularity that has been achieved through tessellation. This not only allows for flexibility but also for growth. Aesthetics follows the over all concept of tessellation giving the pavilion the continuity it needs.

In terms of the form, the curve is the inviting element of the structure. Bringing about the curve using a 100mm x100mm square module was done using combinations of three different square modules.

In bringing a focus to our pavilion, we’ve stuck to our roots and represented monuments of India from several states to showcase the rich architectural culture of our country on a global platform.

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FACTION 8

People’s Prize

MEASI Academy of Architecture, Chennai, India MENTOR: Kesavalu Seshachalam

TEAM: Prassana Venktesh Sriram Arjun Kapoor Shibi Shankarram Zaheeb Hammad Nari Dhwani Nilesh Shah Srilekha Iyyappan Nivedha Elango Swetha Vijaya Raju

“The whole is greater than the sum of all the parts” Gestalt’s philosophy.

The pavilion is imagined as an important interaction space within the pop up city which would spontaneously bring people together to form a community. The pavilion’s mechanism represents expansion of thoughts which happens with the help of social interaction. 0nce expanded, the pavilion can be compressed and relocated to another place which corresponds to the working of a pop up city. This philosophy is interpreted to express the dynamic sense of the pavilion in terms of a three-dimensional space. A simple module is repeated to form a complex structure. These modules are comprised of environment friendly materials, thereby making the pavilion technologically innovative and sustainable.

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WALLUMINOUS

People’s Prize

Kocaeli üniversity, Kocaeli, Turkey MENTORS: Nese Cakici Alp Sema Alacam

TEAM: Durmus Cesur Nalin Bulut Gulhan Demirci Begüm Kaya Ahsen Güneri̇ Hayretti̇n Ömeroğlu Kadir Demirc

Walluminous is an interactive and adaptable shell system that can change its own aspect ratio by 4 times and volume by 3 times without the need to add or remove a piece by means of compression and opening of joints. While the permeability and the perceived colour of the shell changes dynamically, the overall volume of the inner space can expand or shrink. Not an illusion of a macropsia or micropsia, it is just a simple structure that can be changed by hand and the knack of expandability is hidden at the intersection angles of interlocking surfaces. The operational steps of digital fabrication can be applied to any geometry of volumetric nature and we aim to focus on the body-spatial pavilion scale within the scope of this study.

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#UNFOLD

Hawthorn Prize

Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey MENTOR: Asisstant Prof. Dr. Guzden Varinlioglu

Architecture Prize

TEAM: Berfin Ozel Cagla Ozge Balaban Elfin Ulupinar Erman Eskikoy Furkan Sinan Ugutmen Gozde Damla Turhan Mehmet Sadik Aksu Mert Sartik Murat Kumbaraci Seyit Koyuncu

#UNFOLD aims to re-interpret and manipulate the concepts of ‘diversity’, ‘uncertainty’ and ‘standardisation’. Since Twitter reflects the diversity of ideas, an alternative form of participation to the “Pop-up City” can be unfolded. The visualisation of the Twitter data gives a shape to the pavilion.

The map of downtown London was overlapped with a grid as a standardisation. Each node of this grid is examined for the density of tweets for #london, which is constantly changing. The actual form of the #UNFOLD represents one of the captured moments of the ‘uncertainty’. #UNFOLD displays a map section which is a graphical visualization of the tweets at a certain moment coming from the selected area including River Thames. While the low-density of the tweets on the area defines the hollow spaces of the pavilion and encourages people to walk through by creating a path high-density of the tweets demonstrated by the parts that touch to ground. The participants are also encouraged to bend, crawl, and stand to experience the 3D visualisation of the Twitter data. #UNFOLD is one materialized frozen moment of the endless dataflow from Twitter.

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GET HIGH WITHOUT DRUGS

Fabrication Prize

[ARC]UNic, Nicosia, Cyprus MENTOR: Michail Georgiou

QHT Prize

TEAM: Christina Christoforou Valentinos Charalambides Anna Athanasiou Konstantinos Karagiannis Nicos Agapiou Dionisis Voniatis Katerina Tzanoudaki

How can design help escape everydayness while raising awareness on a pressing social issue?

The proposed parametric installation aims to challenge the visitors’ perception, calling them to explore the qualities of an interior space reflecting the activity of the surroundings.

A component-based kaleidoscopic structure aims to trigger a sense of illusion and disorientation through twisted snapshots of the exterior. People are expected to engage the installation and share colorful experiences through distorted shapes and forms. The ever-changing exterior will ensure unique and unrepeatable scenery for the sightseer.

See the world in an alternative way!

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PIXEL

Architecture Prize

IAAC, Barcelona, Spain MENTORS: Silvia Brandi Rodrigo Aguirre Jayant Khanuja Abdullah Ibrahim

TEAM: Nithin Bhargav Ramesh Pranav Kashyap Sandesh Kagganti Ramesh Sayali Avhad Sujal Kodamadanchirayil Suresh

SPECIAL THANKS: Lili Tayefi Ricardo Mayor Lique

The Pavilion of Integrity as we call it, uses a single octagonal folded shingle with self strengthening cardboard joinery that replicates throughout the structure. Each pixel symbolises a unit of space versus time in the city. The pavilion was designed from part to whole resulting in a structure that could be easily dismantled and rebuilt with the same modules into a different form resembling the dynamic behaviour of a Diffused City adapting the transformations of the urban fabric in the time versus space dimensions.

The design optimises many fabrication factors, such as: time consumption of cutting, eliminating additional joinery, minimum waste of material, replicable and reusable components for mass production. The most interesting feature of the pavilion is that the modules are built layer by layer to form a very solid truncated cube which is then tilted to rest on the truncated base giving an element of surprise and a whole new dimension to its form. The self locking structure without the use of adhesives or fixtures gets stiffer with every added layer of modules thus forming a metaphorical canvas of pixels.

Altogether, the thin, lightweight material, cardboard, is transformed into a pavilion symbolising integrity in form, strength in material behaviour, and an august aesthetic. The future of cities as a megalopolis would be defined by the conglomeration of such diverse units of space that grows with time to form an integrated yet diffused urban fabric.

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CANTILEVER

Architecture Prize

IAAC, Barcelona, Spain MENTORS: Rodrigo Aguirre Abdullah Ibrahim

Fabrication

TEAM: Ricardo Mayor Luque Anna Plรก Catalรก Lili Tayefi Paul Nichols Sam Chen

Cantilever encourages social activity by the inclusion of diverse pieces, using a variety of aperture sizes, amplitudes, and color. Using the material in its fullest potential, the inside and outside of the cardboard visualizes the invisible but integral behavior of structure; revealing the paths of tension and compression. This link is a metaphorical representation of the unseen within modern cities.

The structure challenges to build the maximum cantilever, while harnessing the ultimate structural strength and balance, by using digital form finding and optimization techniques to design mass customized spaces with optimum behavior. Using the process of mass customization, the future of cities can use the contribution allowed by optimization methods that technology offers, where each person can find their place.

Every person has the role to contribute a unique sense of empowerment to building the greater society. Each person creates a unique module, the process allows for the group to grow continuously adapting to new environments. The assembly of these unique pieces represents the proud diversity in modern cities, while each person has fulfilled their specific role. The future city proposes to visualize and recognize its integral behaviors that create our unique society.

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RESOLUTION3

Professorial Prize

NYCCT, New York, USA MENTOR: Professor Phillip Anzalone AIA

Hawthorn Prize

TEAM: Svetlana Belopukhova Marco AndrĂŠ Dwyer Christine Nicole Jayco Asli Oney Nicole Ordonez Karla Patrone Adel Yaseen

WITH ASSISTANCE FROM: Allon Morgan Franklin Rojas Hochul Kim SPECIAL THANKS: Matas Olendra

RESOLUTION3 is a distributed network that resolves spatially through various viewpoints, creating a geometric and conceptual image of the city as a relationship between the system of cubes and the inhabitant. The installation seeks to codify a world that is ephemeral and distributed, floating as a temporary networked assembly. The anonymous cubes collect to form a spatialized community, and dissolve into autonomous elements, creating the flux of the contemporary networked city.

Like the participants, at the end of the festival the cubes will disconnect and redistribute through an act of communal dissolution. Visitors will be encouraged to cut a portion of the installation from the support grid and redistribute the elements throughout London, reinforcing the temporary nature of the city.

The New York City College of technology team is composed of members from Russia, Jamaica, Philippines, Turkey, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Iraq, South Korea, Nigeria and the United States. This global assemblage of humanity infuses the project with a simultaneity of cultural overlap, while resolving into an abstract vision of the city of the future the team inhabits and creates.

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CUHK1

Fabrication Prize

CUHK, Hong Kong, China

DS Smith Prize Architecture Prize

MENTOR: Adam Fingrut

TEAM: Chan Wang Fung Ho Kevin Ka Ho Leung Kin Kan Wong Ka Po

Inspired by Chinese Calligraphy, we imagine our pavilion as a loop of variations. Under the idea of resolution, density and rate of change, the pavilion is assembled by modules with different lengths and radius. With a consistent system of construction, the modules manage to transform from structurally sound chairs into light weight arch in the air.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SIT ON THE PAVILION!

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CUHK2

Architecture Prize

CUHK, Hong Kong, China MENTOR: Adam Fingrut

TEAM: Haoran Wang Ho Yu Lam Wing Nga Tam Wing Yi So Kimberley Sum Yuen Lau

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MIND:SPACE

QHT Prize

TU Vienna, Vienna, Austria MENTOR: Jure Herceg

TEAM: Johannes Fandl Julia Flaszynska Margot Holländer Jan Nicoli Lukas Trappl Amirah-Sophie TrÜthandl

Every city is a mass - cut it, make it fly, create space, take a seat, make up your MIND:SPACE. Start with a cuboid volume. Cut it in half with a freefrom plane. Elevate the top part. A space emerges. A bifunctional mindspace in two states of rotation. Choose whether to contemplate by yourself or share thoughts with others.

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Architecture Prize

AD:ITAD, Thessaloniki, Greece MENTORS: Stavros Vergopoulos Dimitris Gourdoukis

DS Smith Prize

DESIGN TEAM: Anastasia Arampatzoglou Areti Damvopoulou Ioannis Chinis Spyridoula Steliou Theodora Ravanidou Zoi Sioni Chrysostomos Noussias

AD:ITAD TEAM: Antonia Ntrenogianni Arianna Mechili George Charalampidis Ioanna Iliadi Irene Savvoulidou Paraskevi Gkaiserlidou Sarra Mittal Stamoulis Oikonomou Vaia Gkerliotou Vasiliki Fragkia

The main aspiration of the pavillion is focused on the synthesis of a structure in which form, shape, assembly and static performativity coexist and interact all together as a whole system.

The form follows an ellipsoid volume, sliced in places for the base to be created. Emphasis is also given in the way in which the desirable integrity of the whole structure could be achieved with the use of recurrent components. The structural system of the pavillion consists of: a) panels with four notches on each one, through which they are attached to the four neighbor pieces, creating interweaving planar frames and, b) perforated planar caps that lock up on the frames, securing the stability and the curvature of the pavillion.

The challenge of this specific structure was to be able to be successfully implemented onto the curved shape, ensuring not only the accuracy of the curvature but also the firmness of the pavillion. In terms of aesthetics of the produced space, differentiation on the panels’ size and caps’ perforation lead to an effect of attenuation towards the top of the pavillion, having a more playful alteration of light and shadow, as well as visual effect.

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RCA

Architecture Prize

Royal College of Art, London, UK MENTOR: Steve Jensen

Professorial Prize

TEAM: Patricia Ntagoma Devan Skuban Julia Samplawska Penelope Dawes James Watts Stefanie Misch Tzu-Yuan Chen

In Tom Sawyer, the Temperance Tavern is exposed as a fraud. In the increasingly self-righteous discourses of 21st Century culture, we detect the same note of hypocrisy. What will the discourses of the culture of the city of tomorrow be? Will they be two-faced? Hypocritical? Self-righteous?

We offer a space that embodies a journey, a transition, a crossing of a threshold.

We reference the にぎり口 (Nijiri-guchi), the crawl-through entrance of the Japanese tea house. Anecdotally, the low entrance meant everyone entered the room in a humble posture. Although society was built of strict hierarchies, everyone was equal in the tea house.

To the extent that our discourses are in our hands, what will we make of them? As liberalism, social democracy, and its related ideals are challenged by the authoritarian right and left, will we go forward in a posture of humility? As we cross the threshold into the city of tomorrow, what will its culture be? What will we make it?

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DS SMITH DS SMITH MENTOR: Craig Morland

TEAM: Mick Parkes Leanne Maskell Rob Chapman Greg Burton Connor Walton Charlotte Hall Jennifer Yarnton

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DESABROCHAR FAUUSP, Sao Paulo, Brazil MENTORS: Eduardo Pizarro Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves Roberta Kronka TEAM: Beatriz Nascimento E Souza Guilherme Reis Muri Cunha Sylvia Tavares Segovia Dênis Iwaoka Shiki Claudia Ferrara Carunchio Amanda Santos Ferreira Mariana Auad Proença

Eduardo Gasparelo Lima Barbara Iamauchi Barroso Larissa Azevedo Luiz Manuel Alvarez Gomez Monroy Nicole Filipini Rose Raad Gabriel Novaes

The pavilion is inspired in Brazilian tropical fl owers and natural lighting, with openings on top that resemble cobogos (from the Brazilian modernist architecture) and get smaller as they get to the ground to make a different shade environment inside. The pavilion is thought as a symbol of na- ture in the middle of a city, as a green spot in the middle of the concrete jungle, adapted to the pop up city’s fluid motion. It is called Desabrochar which means to bloom in Portuguese, again as a reference to the tropical flowers.w

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