Structure, space, wood & daylight – Bispetorv, Århus
Type: School Assignment
When: 7th semester, autumn 2008
About: Large scale structures, space, wood & daylight – Bispetorv, Århus
This assignment consists of making a proposal for a public space in the center of Aarhus – a “salle polyvalance” – with the possibility to be used for shifting activities.
The dynamic structure was to be explored. Both in the sense of structure as a manipulative and living organism and in the sense of structure as the frame of an open and changeable architecture.
The function itself must accommodate a sort of sturdiness and openess that made it possible to integrate changeability and dynamics. In connection to the physical aspects of materalizing a building, focus was on structural thinking and the potentials of dynamic structures.
The building had to be designed as a wooden house where the bearing structure was made out of wood and where the material qualities of wood was fully explored.
Personal focus:
Folding architecture
This is a generative process that should be considered as an open and dynamic development.
The task is to extensively explore transformations of a single paper surface into a volume, with one constraint only, maintaining the continuity of the material.
In a design generative process by folding, the architectural object is not a priori target to be achieved. To work with the principles of folding, is to search for, and to find, connections.
Folding architecture is the infinite work in process – not how to conclude, but how to continue. it’s the inside and the outside, the facade and the closed room, the wrapping and the continious surface.
