Introduction
architects_Nudes
area_301 sqm
year_2015
location_Mumbai, India
The architectural component was designed to facilitate yoga, gastronomical experiences, and cultural event spaces for music, art, performances, intellectual discourse and fashion. These activities are stacked vertically over three levels, including an open to sky terrace courtyard. Remotely located from traffic snarls and insulated from typically high levels of air and sound pollution, the project is sheathed in tranquility and peace. The porous, perforated nature of the skin allows the project to breathe and ventilate thereby reinforcing the relationship between the inside and outside.
The dynamic “skin”, all of 25,992 black cylindrical conduits grafted into CNC-d aluminum composite box panels with acupuncture-like precision shares a peaceful co-existence with its neighbors, its presence gradually unveiled as one meanders through the narrow by-lanes of the historical urban fabric. Digital design and fabrication tools were deployed to compose the entire system.
Decomposition and deconstruction of the logics of the facade
- Diagonal points are shifted from the square base in Z direction by the same height, thereby creating two curved and two straight edges.
- After creating a point grid on the base surface, points are extruded to the top surface forming lines of different lengths.
- From the lines the pipes are created, with the same diameter but different lengths, forming a characteristic pattern.
- Base surface is extruded into a perforated cube with a matrix for the pipes.
- Pipes are subsequently placed into the matrix creating a typical panel.
- With simple rotation and stacking of the panels, a parametric facade is created.
Designing a single panel
Pseudo code
Additional plug-ins used
- Pufferfish – Creates a plane oriented union bounding rectangle or separate bounding rectangles for geometry.
- Treesloth – Divide branches into multiple data trees using an index pattern
Achieved parametric facade
