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Partial Systematization: more than “plugged in” When these forces collide, it creates a type of turbulence locally and resonating throughout the system. The apparatus is constructed through an aggregation of the modulated surfaces to be acted on through site, program and user. Through the concept of Partial Systematization, surfaces merge and expand out, creating individual nodes that branch out from a single form. Five Steps to Construct an Apparatus: 1. “Play” surface along lines: crease to reinforce strengths and weaknesses.
The Model: material parametric
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The model primarily demonstrates the partial systematization of the institute’s surfaces and spaces. The “nodes” that extend from the main mass begin in a “wrapped” or condensed, contracted condition and expand out as a surface to become layered with the neighboring surfaces. The surfaces fracture and interweave with the others. Conceptually, and programmatically, this demonstrates the generation and input
2. Insert wires along creased lines to further reinforce strengths of membrane. 3. Find areas of overlap between surfaces and use wires to reinforce overlaps (synergies). 4. Begin to tighten wires along resulting nodes. Repeat. 5. By pulling and relaxing individual wires, modulate apparatus in response to site and program.
of knowledge within the nodes, which is drawn into the system to be disseminated throughout the institution. The surface conditions operate at multiple scales, with the paper model blending wall, floor and ceiling, and lines on the surface operating im multiple ways. Holes perforated into the surface, for example, become pods for hydroponic growth, plantings within floors, and permeable ground surfaces in the public spaces.
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