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Sukkah City: Curving Edges
Sukkah City: Curving Edges
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It may be a bit early to post this but I've been told the project was not chosen to be one of the twelve constructed. Congrats to those who were chosen.
Sukkah City: Curving Edges seeks to reexamine the possibilities of the SKIN / STRUCTURE relationship. Typically, parametric structures are thought to have a rigid structure made up of multiple straight pieces that can then be sheathed by a flexible skin. In Sukkah City: Curving Edges, the structure represents the flexibility of form, and the skin is the inflexible part. Further demonstrating the contrast is the choice of materials and the way they are used. The overlapping glass shingles present the user with number of experiences maybe not usually observe as they casually experience glass everyday. The overlapping glass distorts the users view as it provides a different level of transparency and reflectivity then one is likely used to. This also gives the glass the visual strength to act as wall and window. The curving steel structure, both tubes and cables, allows the user to truly appreciate all the dynamics of steel. From the aesthetics and feel of the raw steel, to the use of both its compression and tension structural qualities.
The structure was designed by a strict rule of 2=3 and 3=2. Only those dimensions or those that factored back to them were allowed to determine the proper form. The form is designed to maximize the passivity of the user. Does one just pass through, or does one stay inside? Where does inside officially start?
Finally the materials were chosen because they are organic to cities, no to nature. Cities in themselves are not organic. But they do change the landscape and become a landscape onto themselves. If one definition of organic relies upon proximity to ones immediate landscape, than glass and steel are as organic to cities as twigs and mud are to the forest.
Ultimately, Sukkah City: Curving Edges is a structure that desires to be a reflection of all that surrounds it.
Sukkah City: Curving Edges seeks to reexamine the possibilities of the SKIN / STRUCTURE relationship. Typically, parametric structures are thought to have a rigid structure made up of multiple straight pieces that can then be sheathed by a flexible skin. In Sukkah City: Curving Edges, the structure represents the flexibility of form, and the skin is the inflexible part. Further demonstrating the contrast is the choice of materials and the way they are used. The overlapping glass shingles present the user with number of experiences maybe not usually observe as they casually experience glass everyday. The overlapping glass distorts the users view as it provides a different level of transparency and reflectivity then one is likely used to. This also gives the glass the visual strength to act as wall and window. The curving steel structure, both tubes and cables, allows the user to truly appreciate all the dynamics of steel. From the aesthetics and feel of the raw steel, to the use of both its compression and tension structural qualities.
The structure was designed by a strict rule of 2=3 and 3=2. Only those dimensions or those that factored back to them were allowed to determine the proper form. The form is designed to maximize the passivity of the user. Does one just pass through, or does one stay inside? Where does inside officially start?
Finally the materials were chosen because they are organic to cities, no to nature. Cities in themselves are not organic. But they do change the landscape and become a landscape onto themselves. If one definition of organic relies upon proximity to ones immediate landscape, than glass and steel are as organic to cities as twigs and mud are to the forest.
Ultimately, Sukkah City: Curving Edges is a structure that desires to be a reflection of all that surrounds it.
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