Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Back in Studio World

It's easy to forget, but alongside thesis there is still studio.  Our programme this term is for a yacht club, sailing school and race sailing research lab down by Crissy Fields in the Marina District.

Here are some photo's of a generative cast plaster model I did.  My partner, Jeremy Bamberger, and I are working with the Venturi Effect to maximise exposure to the wind through funneling apertures.  The idea is to bring the phenomological elements associated with sailing into the building.



The thickness of the model is not yet fully resolved.  Neither of us envisage this as a facade study, more as a programmatic parti experiment, where each aperture becomes a single programme, drawing air in to different degrees based on that activity's need.

The formwork