Museum project
Our project is a biomimicry of the parasitic growth, the parasites such as fungus has survived for millions of years, this micro-organism has the ability to take over entire organism and sometimes eco-systems such as forests and ant colonies.
Parasites can grow anywhere and everywhere, they aren’t bounded by the boundaries of time and space so we plan to replicate this concept by creating flexible modules that can be replicated everywhere and can serve as extensions for the initial building.
Our site is located in an important historical and cultural area, to follow our colonization concept we started by populating the site with points, then we interconnected the points with each others using interconnect, and then we used the shortest walk to get the shortest path through all the site.
for more control over the simulation we decided to specify our own starting points and a surrounding boundary to create some sort of connection between the different parasitical Modules. This time we decided to start on the island since parasites always look for spaces rich in nutriments and minerals and then we started spreading through all the site
After we got our boundary surface, we created openings on the branching nodes to create some sort of variation in our shape. and did the kangaroo form finding .
Our project is planned to have a journey like program, which was defined by the growing branches forming the route as an exhibition journey pathway and having sub spaces such as a restaurant and gift-shops.
For the paneling we used a different layer of colonization using different tools mimicking the peoples movement in the building. we defined the entry points as point fields, and the skylight as a spin force, and ran some grasshopper loops to get the final shape.
The building parasitic envelope follows the concept of inside out where we are using it to contains the building electrical and MEP system, the parasitic skin consist of cache cable covered with reflective black epoxy to protect the building operating system. This is Module A- which is more longitudinal, The buildings consists of a grid shell made using lap joint and butt joints glulam beams taken from the old decaying trees of the forest nearby, other trees will be planted in there place to preserve the forest.
Module- B
The building parasitic envelope follows the concept of inside out where we are using it to contains the building electrical and MEP system, the parasitic skin consist of cache cable covered with reflective black epoxy to protect the building operating system
