BIFURCATION
BIO - SINGULARITY - CUSTOM COLUMN PROFILES
The workshop was orchestrated by IAAC’s computational professor, Rodrigo Aguirre, and Mark Burry, architect director of the Sagrada Familia. The seminar aimed to reinterpret Gaudi’s columns and generate a geometrical guide along with a branching system to seamlessly join the columns. The 3-day physical workshop majorly involved simultaneous digital and physical modelling, using parametric computation, implemented through hands-on fabrication.
By using the irregular pattern of a tree trunk slice for our first profile, we were able to extract the logic of the organic form to further accentuate them in our second profile. However more systematically, our second asymmetric profile follows a pattern rotation of 15 degrees, with more symmetrical curves similar to that of the first profile. Beginning with straight rails to guide our first profile, we developed custom rails to create a twisting motion, similar to natural tree growth. We used the custom rails for our second and third profiles. Following the theme of asymmetry, the third profile follows a rotation logic that matches the chosen L- branching system. Quadrants are dissected into 1, 2, and 4 segments with sharper curves to appear less organic or ‘man-made.’ Applying the twisting motion of our custom rails, the third profile generated a sharp, glitch-like aesthetic, accentuating the synthetic or “man-made” concept.
Students: Alaa Aldin Al Baroudi | Olivia A|varez | Jitendra Farkade | Fouad Nader Hanifa | Ivan Marchuk | Justin Sheinberg
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre and Mark Burry
