TRANSFORM
PARACHUTE RE-FOLD
The Metamorphosis theme is based on the increasing need for adaptable architecture and flexibility in design. We challenge you to embrace a design that has multiple functions, iterations and uses, and integrate this idea into your own community and continuing design. This year opens a new creative opportunity to be judged on multiple iterations of each project, allowing for a greater understanding of each design and design process. This transient nature will hopefully translate to our own temporary community: flexible, interesting, beautiful, and fleeting.
The canopy of a military parachute was integrated with a light weight structure with the fabric folding onto itself to create stages of inflation. The daytime phase is when the fabric is velcro-ed at certain points to produce an expanded form. The air-tight nature of the parachute catches wind and thus generates more interior space. The night-time phase is when the fabric is velcro-ed at all connection points to produce a condensed form for thermal comfort.
KAREN WANG
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
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