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10MAR 2015

Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY Installations Transform INRIA

Posted in Architecture - Installation by * FORMAKERS

RESEARCH: The lightweight, ultra-thin structures are the result of an on-going research from the studio into custom computational protocols for optimization of surface tension, geometric description for information modeling, and (re)assembly efficiency up to logistics of transportation.

SKIN: Multiple generative steps were developed to form a continuous, structurally performing skin system. An initial topological mesh object, connecting on six distributed anchor points within the space, is submitted to an iterative surface tension process.

A seventh extra anchor toward the ceiling, not physically connected, is added in order to maximize double curvature along the surface, and therefore embedding inherent stiffness.MORPHOLOGY: Stress flows obtained from structural analysis (for Under Stress) and tensions lines (for Sous Tension) are translated into a vector-field used for directional fitness by a series of distributed “agents”, flowing along the overall morphology.

The non-intersecting trails of the “agents” are eventually materialized into non-linear aluminum stripes, of length equivalent to the “agents”’ lives. These stripes are connected together and held in place with rivets, maintaining a smooth flow of forces along the surface through tangential continuity while describing the overall morphology.

Such search protocols are used to replace traditional descriptive geometry rule-sets often far too complex on such non-linear morphologies..

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