Misr Italia , Cairo
Computational Designer
3D PRINTED CLUBHOUSE
Fonte D’amore
PROJECTBRIEF:
Thedialoguebetweentraditionandmodernityinarchitecturecallsforseamlessintegration.
FonteD’amoreachievesthisthroughasecondaryskin afluid,organicinterventioninspired byAntoniGaudí’sarchitecturallanguage.
Byleveragingcomputationaltechniques,wedevelopedaresponsivesystemthatadaptsto theexistingstructure.Contextualmodelingresolveditsformandstructure,whileautomated drawinggenerationenablediterativerefinements,ensuringaseamlessfusionofheritageand innovation. heritageandinnovation.
Tooptimizetheformforcost-effectiveandefficientconstruction,wesegmenteditintostandardized modulesof150mmand600mm,derivedthroughcurvatureanalysis. Thisapproachbalancedprecision withpracticality,ensuringthecurve’sessenceisretainedwhilesimplifyingfabricationandassembly.
Thepositionwhereeachkinkoftheinnersteelmemberintersectedthegridwasgivenacoordinatewith respecttothemarkedorigin.Positionsofcont.verticalmembersofdimension100x50werealsofiguredout atstrategiclocationsforsupport.
AGrasshopperscriptwasdevelopedtooptimizethefabricationprocessbylayingthevertical steelmembers flat,inpositionswithminimaldeviationalongtheXandYaxes.Thisensured efficientmaterialusageandeaseofassembly.Thescriptalsoautomatedthelabelingof dimensionsandthegenerationofdetailedfabricationdrawings,streamliningsiteexecution byreducingmanualadjustmentsanderrors.
PROJECTBRIEF:
Theintersectionofcomputationaldesignandadvancedfabricationopensnewfrontiersin architecture.Data-DrivenVoronoiexploresthissynergy,leveragingtheVoronoidiagramto generateadynamic,performance-drivensystem.
Throughscriptingandsimulations,werefinedanemergentstructure anetworkof cavernoushoneycombvoids,eachscaledtoaccommodateitsintendeduse.Thelargest spaces,suchassportsandmultipurposehalls,actascentralattractors,withauxiliary functionsbranchingorganicallywithintheirVoronoishells,creatingaself-organizing architecturalecosystem.
Thescripttakesupvaryingstreetpatternsandthendividesthemonthebasisoftheirpointsof discontinuity.Pointswherethedegreeofcurvaturechangesdrasticallybecomesnodeswhich dictatethesizesoftheotherstreetspheres.
Thescriptthenreadstheexceldatatounderstandspatialrelationsandhierarchyandgenerate aspacesyntaxdiagramwhichdictatesthepositionofaparticularfunctioninspacewrttoother functions
Inthisdemonstration,changingexcelrelationsandareasaffectthesphereconglomeration aswellastheresultingVoronoimassing.Thischangeredistributesthe3broadcategoriesof functions–Large,multiconnectedandisolated,tocreateafunctionallydifferentandunique massingeachtime
Themassingalsoreactstovariousstreetconfigurations,changingitsformanddensityto avoidthestreetsphereswhichareconsideredaseparateentity
