Master in Advanced Architecture 2012/2013
The project consist in the design and manufacturing of a piece which had to fit within a cylindrical bounding box of 49.5 mm diameter and 200 mm height. It was necessary to respect a central core consisting of a 3mm thick tube with a 3.75mm radius hollow space at its center.
The principal aim was the structural and material optimization, working primarily in an anticlockwise direction.
With the inspiration of Lamella System, the morphology of the design became more organic; to achieve a natural texture that makes all bricks looks with a unique form.
By using the CNC machine, the work was on 3 steps for 3 different layers that all related together to give the final form of the Mold.
Joe Galea Maria Kuptsova Nasr Chamma
Lamella, investigates the possibility of designing as well as physically producing free-form interlinked structures based on multiple dependencies and also opening up the possibilities of nonlinear blocks systems, to get different phases formed by the C16EO6/water system
By altering the configuration of angles between segments, each element tries to orient its segments towards their neighbors.
The brick wall can play three different functions at the same time, plus it gives different spatial qualities to the space due to its both different faces, one side to the conference room, and the other to the public area to be adding this parametric mimic brick formation by the inspiration of Lamella system.
Joe Galea Maria Kuptsova Nasr Chamma