Agile X UniSA Pavilion

Adelaide, Australia

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Agile X UniSA Pavilion

Adelaide, Australia

Firm

Agile X Research Group

Type

Cultural › Pavilion

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2016

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$0 - 10K

The world is increasingly fast paced and uncertain. In few places is this pace more evident than in computing. In this new world, the traditional methods of architecture may struggle to keep pace. The idea of AGILE X is to apply agile development methods from computing in design. This makes AGILE X different from a standard design process in that we focus on the development of immaterial systems first and decide on the materialisation at the last possible moment. This enables us to be more flexible and responsive to both the needs of the client and the contextual, material and environmental conditions of the project during the design process.
We have recently tested these ideas in a series of three workshops to design and fabricate a pavilion for the office of Design and Architecture South Australia (ODASA) in Adelaide to coincide with the Australian Institute of Architecture’s National Conference. The first workshop hosted by The Hyperbody Research Group at TU Delft attempted to create immaterial pavilions that could adapt to the diverse contexts first of Delft, Adelaide and Tianjin with students from UniSA, Hyperbody, Tianjin and Beijing Jiaotong University. At the second workshop hosted in Australia at UniSA participants worked in groups on the conceptual design, detail and materiality, at the same time with industrial partners including Woods Bagot. This resulted in a series of different but compatible solutions for the design, material and fabrication of the immaterial pavilion proposed for Adelaide in the first workshop.
In the third workshop the AGILE X UniSA Pavilion was fabricated in an easily demountable 6mm MDF and 3mm Acrylic structure with intermittent flyscreen panels by architecture and architecture and engineering students from UniSA. We are currently planning more workshops to develop the designs for the Delft and Tianjin pavilions.