A year ago I took a very interesting class called Case Studies in Contemporary Urbanism, Landscape Architecture and Design, taught by Jonathan Barnett, David Gouverneur and Aron Cohen. As part of the class students broke off into interdisciplinary teams (the class was a good mix of architects, landscape architects and urban planning students) to complete... Continue Reading →
It was a late night in studio with some interesting company.
I catch a Megabus to New York in a few hours then make my way to JFK for a flight to Dhaka by way of Dubai. The week started with snow delays, had a last minute trip to DC yesterday to pick up my passport and visa, a mid term exam yesterday and a mid... Continue Reading →
This project was a one week charrette from the fall of 2012 (the transitional housing studio) looking at minimal urban shelters.
For the final project of Deployable structures, Steve Kocher and I incorporated a revised adjustable strut into a square pyramid/tetrahedron space frame. There are two deployments. Starting off in its most upright and compact form, the lateral members unfold and the truss expands to its identifiable geometry. The second deployment has the diagonal... Continue Reading →
A brief recap. The past few posts have been a review of work completed as part of a class called Deployable Structures, taught at PennDesign by Mohamad Al Khayer. A few weeks were spent on folded paper modeling (origami, as seen on this pinterest page). Mohamad also review some of the ideas of D'Arcy Thompson's... Continue Reading →
Continuing on the topic of deployable structures, today I am focusing on 'space filling geometry' or 3D tessellations. This refers to any geometric arrangement which can be replicated to complete fill a volume. Cubes stacked on top of each other would qualify. A simple way of creating this type of geometry is to work out... Continue Reading →
Deployable structures refer to any type of structure that has at least two sizes and/or configurations. Any tent qualifies, as does an umbrella. These object transform radically from their stored state, as compact as can be to facilitate their transport, and full expanded to provide (in both of these cases) shelter from the elements. As... Continue Reading →
A few more photos of yesterday's project.
Back to overpasses and University City. This is a project from Fall 2012, a design for transitional housing for the formerly homeless. My writing from the semester: Our site is one defined by transience, by commute, by Motion. The site is an overlap of anonymous paths and few destinations. In an effort to provide a... Continue Reading →
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