06_07_I.nter.CON.tinuities

brief: SIMULTANEITY & LATENCY
STUDIO HADID : VIENNA : WS 06_07

authors: MAREN KLASING : MARTIN KRCHA : MANUEL FROESCHL : KONRAD HOFMANN

The project proposes an urban configuration for Dubai based on smooth continuation as a gestalt principle. The desired effects of the fassade contextualize the latent gestalt transformations of the figurative singularities that belong to multiple latent groups within the urban fabric. This figure-field relationship is superimposed with ambient variables and the surface expressions of the urban proposal. The layering is set up in a parametric model which is driven by six major parameters. It respects the geometry which it is applied to, the lighting condition as well as observer parameters that trigger the transformation of cuts and continuities among the fassade elements.

flash presentation here

gc component setup:





gc parametric superimposition of bended edges inclinations:



various gc field control setups:



animated facade:



Final facade articulation was done by mapping rgb bitmap values as inputs for the component variables.

study samples dealing with different design constraints (visual flip through observer position change, lighting effects, achieving pattern hierarchies, (dis)continuities, etc.):















physical adjustable facade prototype:





facade connection study:



final tower facade articulation:















tower form animated diagram - stripe bending introduction to achieve structural stiffness:



tower form diagram and section:



LG HI-MACS model produced by ROSSKOPF UND PARTNER: