flying over the rails November 2010
The pavilion is the result of an inquiry in the role of structure in the production of space. The program demanded of no specific use, however a visit at the location, on the outskirts of Haarlem, revealed the need for a cyclist pathway, flying over the rails. The user here is both a visitor and a "voyager". The first one has a sensorial voyage passing the bridge over the pavilion and the second experiences the responses of this event imprinted on the pavilion itself. This interaction brought to the front of the research a more dynamic, responsive, communicative and open-functional design.
Lightness, flexibility, skin,complexity, transparency and movement go with the flow of architecture’s shift towards a less static state.Challenging traditional practices and materials, the 4 carbon-fiber sandwich ribbons support the bridge and produce a woven space. The textile mesh that "ties" them together is made out of metal ropes, colorful fabric ones stitched among them and a layer of sprayed-on fabric. The piezoelectric ceramics located both on the 4 connection points of the bridge with the carbon fiber bands, and on the edges of the metal wires, mutate the stresses of compression and tension correspondingly to electrical current that stimulates the LEDs of the textile surfaces. The result is a responsive textile structure offering experiential effects and aesthetic qualities. A meshed landscape for gathering, sensing, experiencing, exhibiting, visiting or passing by.
http://issuu.com/deda13/docs/flying_over_the_rails
Lightness, flexibility, skin,complexity, transparency and movement go with the flow of architecture’s shift towards a less static state.Challenging traditional practices and materials, the 4 carbon-fiber sandwich ribbons support the bridge and produce a woven space. The textile mesh that "ties" them together is made out of metal ropes, colorful fabric ones stitched among them and a layer of sprayed-on fabric. The piezoelectric ceramics located both on the 4 connection points of the bridge with the carbon fiber bands, and on the edges of the metal wires, mutate the stresses of compression and tension correspondingly to electrical current that stimulates the LEDs of the textile surfaces. The result is a responsive textile structure offering experiential effects and aesthetic qualities. A meshed landscape for gathering, sensing, experiencing, exhibiting, visiting or passing by.
http://issuu.com/deda13/docs/flying_over_the_rails
Design Research Studio * TU Delft * individual project