Arcihitectural Drawings

Introduction

Our proposal explores how the idea of Ensemble can create maximum architectural potentiality by harnessing highly intricate pattern system within the geometric boundary.

Understanding CERN's Background

CERN’s ambition is not about application of science that responds to a specific problem, but about understanding natural systems at their largest and the smallest scales, and the relationships of everything in between. The ambition is reflected to its future expansion plan with FCC. (approx. circumference 100km)

The massiveness of the future facilities, including the FCC, requires a solid organizational strategy, which is highly disciplined to meet the scientists’ needs, yet flexible enough to generate infinite spatial potentiality. Adjacency and relationship between the new campus and the existing campus

“Ensemble” is an idea about how to cluster different entities within a finite organization while allowing the possibility of flexible transition between different scales. The configurations can be morphologically varied and it operates as various spatial uses. To be specific, the rigorous organization of ensemble can create a higher intricacy that allows for a variety of formal typology in respect to its programmatic diversity.

Reflecting Pool Perspective

Interior Perspective

The pattern generates a multiplicity of axis and hierarchy globally and locally as well as connections and adjacencies. The pattern is an organizational strategy, The mechanism and interface between scalar orders of magnitude from the campus within the landscape to the ornamentation of the architecture. The pattern allows the potential of growth internally and externally. The agglomeration of the pattern permits a dynamic multiplicity of potential relationships, instead of static singularity. It is neither the platonic notion of ideal form nor is it formal optimization that responds to a specific contextual problem set. The idea of pattern and ensemble is reflected to the physical planning and programming of the new CERN campus.

The superimposition of pattern on the site acts as a formal basis of the recursive process for the building form. The pattern ties the building and the surrounding context together. Based on the base pattern overlaid on the site, multiple massing iterations have been produced.

The pattern not only acts as a form-generator, but also acts as an interface of conversion between 2D pattern and 3D materiality. It is projected to the building mass and dictate te material division and scaling architectural details.