Heavy and Hollow

concept

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:46:00 +0000

The project challenges the concept of the cave as a mass. Through the substraction of a primitive
the inner mass is generated by intersections and the residual void is created between the now two masses. The result is a dynamic geometry that is constantly oscillating between mass and void.

Usable space is expressed as heavy mass.

final model pics

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:34:00 +0000

vectors

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:10:00 +0000

views

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:38:00 +0000

section

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:58:00 +0000

axo, plan

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:27:00 +0000

sections

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:24:00 +0000

geometry

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:23:00 +0000

I used the technique of substraction to manipulate my mass.
The primitive was an ellipsoid which was then carved by a series of other ellipsoids to create the relationship of mass to void.
Through the intersection of these primitives the inner mass containing the cheese storage is created, the void - the circulation space - is between now two masses.

The diagram shows the first, symmetrical attempt, and the final geometry.

light vs. shadow, day and night

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:16:00 +0000

midterm model pics

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:23:00 +0000

elevations, perspectives

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:00:00 +0000

midterm drawings

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:57:00 +0000

siteplan

sections

sketches - plans, circulation

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:20:00 +0000

sketches - roof

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:16:00 +0000

sketches. void vs. mass

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:50:00 +0000

temperature, humidity - diagrams

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:19:00 +0000

in the cheese-aging room 10-13 degrees of temperature and 80-90% of humidity has to be maintained.

shape inside a shape

double skin

onion strategy

climate research

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:40:00 +0000

approach

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:27:00 +0000

traditionally the cave is a void in the ground, which is a mass.
i lift up my 'cheese-cave', with which i'm challenging the concept of the 'cave' as mass.

interior reference - cocoon house

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:15:00 +0000

first grids

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:06:00 +0000

next steps

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:43:00 +0000

express usable space as heavy, solid mass.
express this heavy, solid mass as if it was floating, unstable, could roll away.

ground startegy

two systems of geometry
no.1 creates the volumes
no. 2 creates circulation, apertures, shelf-system, ground
based on a 2d grid?

model pics

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:36:00 +0000

reference - floating object

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:29:00 +0000

diagrams

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:13:00 +0000

desk

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:42:00 +0000