Cliff
House
La s V e ga s , N V
This project was done in collaboration with Kokkugia and the Mitchell Lab at Texas A&M university directed by Roland Snooks and Gabriel Esquivel. The project attempts to discuss composite fiber material implications in extreme conditions using agent-based behavioral design methodologies. Design intent is encoded within elements that interact at micro scales to give way to structure, ornament, and form at the macro scale. The translucency of the composite material has enabled the interior networks of emergent hierarchies to remain visible, blurring the distinction between structure and ornament. The cliff site was chosen to exploit the capacities of composite fiber construction in high wind and static load conditions. The network of emerging tentacles then begins to latch onto the cliff face partly as structural necessity, and also serving to blur the boundary of the object itself.