KIRTI SIMIDA

LIVE LOAD SIMULATION

Live load simulation. Maximum deflection 6.7654 mm.

Live load simulation. Maximum deflection 6.7654 mm.

THE MAKING OF A LAMINATED CHAISE LOUNGE

Laminated Chaise Lounge made for the EmTech exhibition at the AA Summer Show. More info coming soon.

Project team: Bartek Arendt, Chris Hill, Marina Konstantatou, Eleni Meladaki, Yung - Yuan Huang.

 Special thanks to Trys from the AA Model Workshop.

WAVE CHAIR

The chair was developed as a design proposal for the pop-up cinema at Gillette Square in Dalston, London. Chairs of various shapes provide for different ways of seating and create wavy landscape on the square. The project gave us the opportunity to experiment with wood fabrication techniques. We learned about how bending properties of dry and soaked wood differ and how curvature of wood can be induced by lamination of multiple layers of plywood. We found out about structural capacities of wood and how they can be improved by different fabrication methods. 


Design team: Bartek Arendt, Chris Hill, Marina Konstantatou, Guy Austern, Suraj Suthar, Yung-Yuan Huang, Amin Hassanpour, Pradeep Devadass.
Photos: Suraj Suthar, Chun Fone Liu.

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ABSTRACT

Arne Quinze Cityscape

The project aims to investigate the translation of complexity and interdependence in natural systems to create architecture which is highly efficient, environmentally specific and structurally coherent.  Local architecture placed in continental climates will be studied to assess how building forms have evolved to manage their habitats.  Founded on these studies, rules for environmentally defined architecture will be abstracted and applied to spatial organisations exploring the performance and quality of space.  Materiality is considered as an integral part of the system. Drawing upon organisational principles of natural systems, the concept of the “body plan” is introduced as a reciprocal relation between environmentally adaptive parameters and diagrammatic notions of spatial organisation. Form is conceived as a manifestation of the “body plan” through the imposition of material constraints.  This approach calls for a diverse material, where inherent properties can be applied as a gradient to functional, structural and physical requirements. Wood possess many unexploited potentials, such as anisotropic properties, which have not been explored at a scale larger than that of a pavilion. Sheet material will be explored through the use of digital fabrication techniques, establishing elements for assembly and minimising redundancy.