project J:Negative

Where: interstitial spaces

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  Present situation

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  Future scenario

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  Possible place for the intervention

How: modular system

Customised modular systems
 offer
 the possibility of
 flexible
 structures
which can help solve the requirements of
 temporary
 events and activities.
 Additionally,
 modular
 systems potentially 
provide 
forms
 with
 great
 complexity 
out
 of
 simplicity. This
 project investigates
 the
 evolution
 of
 self‐sustained
 parasitic
 structures
 that evolve
 by
 creating
 aggregation
 forms
 well
 adapted
 to
 their
 hosts.

The
 modular
 development
 of
 forms, capable
 to
 adapt
 to
 the
 built
 environment
 but at the same time disruption existing flows,
 provides
 easy
 and
 low‐cost
 solutions
 for
 extending
 and rejuvenating architectural
 space.

Modulus

We will engage with the idea of a responsive and interactive architecture through a demountable, reploy-able and recyclable structure.

For this reason we have investigated different kind of solid that we can use for an iterative model.

| The inspiration: foldable boat

| Achille Castiglioni's Taraxacum

Truncated Octahedron

The solid that we have chosen to investigate the creation of iterative structures is the truncated octahedron.

In solid geometry the truncated octahedron is an Archimedean polyhedra of the thirteen, obtained by truncating the cusps regular octahedron.

He has 14 regular faces, of which 8 hexagonal and 6 square edges 24 of his 36 separate hexagonal face of a square and 12 hexagonal faces two separate, and each of its 24 vertices contribute a square face and two hexagonal faces.

Construction phases

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  Phase1

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  Phase2

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  Phase3

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  Phase4

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  Phase5

Possible configuration

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  Phase1

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  Phase2

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  Phase3

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  Phase4

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  Phase5