OSCILLATING RIDGES

TECHNIQUE: Curved Folded Aluminium 1mm

DATE: 2012

STUDENTS: Danny Te Kloese, Matthieu Delacretaz

PROGRAMM: In Silico Building II

PLACE: LAUSANNE

Realized based on the curved folding technique this pavilion integrate very particular geometrical implicit characteristics due to material behaviors. A long research enabled to study the plastic rupture of the material and also its interaction with a water jet cutting machine in order to cut the material but also to mark it.

These marks are necessary for the construction process: as the automation of the folding of each panel would have been way too complex and time consuming it has been done by hand. Angles have been optimized by row even though if each piece is different. The joining system has been developed to work even though if the angular conditions between two pieces and the intersection curves are all different: it accommodates any change present in the project. The final shape of the pavilion is a manifestation of the geometrical needs: global double curvature is necessary for the joining system to work. If no curvature would have been impossible to hold, too high curvature would have been impossible to assemble because of the complexity of the resulting panels.

The global shape of this pavilion, its modules and joins is the manifestation of the intricate system in which is taken into consideration geometrical conditions, mechanical constrains of the used material and also fabrication matters.

Credits

Danny Te Kloese
Project Executor

Paul Ehret
Teacher

Philipp Eversmann
Teacher