The objective of this presentation was to explore the shelves as structure in order to transform an existing garage in London (Clissold Crescent, Hackney) into a workshop space. Through this seminar we understood the various opportunities and the potential of adapting shelves into roof structures. We made various grids by moving the positions of shelves and ended up with many variations of roof grids and facades. We were interesting in exploring different interior facades using the shelves by creating openings, and also by using them in the structure of the roof as well. Through the in depth analysis, and physical testing we managed to find the optimum grid design and connection system.
Through the karamba analysis we test the rigidity of both grid variations. The results were very similar, but the most optimal was the first variation
After the grid variation we focused on the joinery system. We decided on fabricating and testing a cable and timber joinery system.
After the testing we explored different variations on the cable joinery, so we made some adjustments and concluded on the above design
Conclusions
After the physical testing, we understood that the joinery system that we decided to fabricate and test, wasn’t the most efficient one. So during the days after, we focused on examining a different variation of the cable joinery system and through the karamba analysis we decided that this works better for our structure. Therefore ourd design with this cable system ends up in being a very rigid one that useless shelves as structure .
For even more accurate results in future testing we will use an extra component that would be positioned between our joinery structure and the load, for better stability and better results.
