I’m fascinated by Shigeru Ban’s Nine Bridge Club house. The projection of the a rectangular grid down into these funnel shapes is such a simple idea on a large scale and totally mind bending in the details.
For my sketch, I made a quarter of one funnel with a revolve, cut it down to a square edge, divided the surface, then turned off the U and V grids, and used intersects projected from Level 1.
The panel is just a half step pattern with this geometry.
Plenty of flaws in the lattice (intersect based gridlines can get a little funky at the edges, particularly in tangency conditions) but it’s getting there.
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I believe this is not the first time Shigeru has done this...http://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/ similar technique was used in this design. Amazing work!
love it.
quite simple to resolve it with what you are saying, but then when you would analyze for structure, i am sure it would not deflect in a symetrical manner at all and then would look all wonky and organic..
also if you were doing it in paper tubes, it would be more and more non-consistent (unless you go around over-designing everything) as the material itself has a behavioral non-linearity.. and to top it all, it would still be non-consistent in production.. :)
i wonder how they worked around those problems!!
Hi Zach
thanks for this great contribution.
This link to the "digital constructors" of the structure might be interesting as well:
http://www.designtoproduction.ch/content/view/74/49/
In contrast to the expensive complicated and partial double curved elements of shigerus design,
also have a look to Frei Otto's Mannheim Pavillon which is build form thousands 5cm x 5cm simple slats.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multihalle
http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_architektur/twp/studium/downloads/analysen/ws05_06/Mannheim_Multihalle_Reuschel_Roy.pdf
I am trying to model this myself, but I am having trouble modeling the quarter funnel. Do you have any tips?
I also I have problems with the modeling of the funnel, you might be a little more detailed.
thanks :)
That´s really helping me but I still can´t find any detailed drawings of it or good description on how to do them from scratch in 3D (Rhino)
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