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STUDIO AIRB.3. - CASE STUDY 2.0 - SECTIONING

2005 SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION - ALVARO SIZO

A cafe by day and a venue for talks and events at night, the

2005 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by Alvaro Sizo is a great example of how sectioning can be used to produce a structure. In this case the pavilion is basically a waffle grid made from short planks of timber, folded down at the edges to form the walls. Panes of polycarbonate fill in the squares of the grid until it meets the ground on extended “legs”. The Pavilion is a good example of architecture adapting to its context as the original form of the pavilion was meant to be a rctangle how-ever due to the position of nearby trees the, form was changed to a more asymetrical design.This demonstrates the flexibility of the sectioning technique, in adapt-ing to an environment which would have been much more difficult with, for example a solid wall. Hence in our Gateway project we hope to adapt our sectioning struc-ture to the enviormnet of the site.

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The sectioned coffee table named “Sectionimal” was created by a digitial design team from Chili gt_2P. The de-sign utilised digital design software in order to generate the sectioned volumetric surfaces. The design team

looked at fabrication, manufacturing and construction from these media. It is clear from the photos that this form of design sugguests that sections join using a slotting method which reduces the requirement for joinary or no joinary.

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The algorithm which we ran in order to generate a very similar sectioned surface to the Section-imal project involved applying what was learnt in the above example and then duplicating the commands and changing the item node in order to alter the direction in which the planes are cre-ated. This change was made by changing the slider from 5 to 4 which if you imagine a square from plan it chooses the east line after having been allocated initially the north line an addi-tion of these creates the grid system. Through further research we will develop ways of joining the pieces through minimal connections.

Through our exploration of the sectionimal project we began our research by generating algorithms through Rhino. It involved generating a basic sur-face which was then exploded and simplified in order to create multiple frames along the surface. This was the basis for the more complicated model below.

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