SHell form finding
The Project’s aim is to populate the entire site of the olympic village with buildings that stem from one system of shells, which house all the functions of an olympic village. We approached this design problem with a parametric minimalist approach – the shells come out of an evolution from a basic cell to a dissolving field. This metamorphosis is a result of changing parameters concerning space size and openness.
Our goal is to prove the functionality of the system by simulating a multitude of very specific situations within the olympic village. Different layers of scale that sometimes exist alone, and sometimes overlay provide us with the necessary possibilities for semiotic differentiation within the olympic field. Based on a grid varying in regularity and scale, and ranging from linear to broken up, the buildings emerge sometimes gradually, sometimes appruptly from the ground.
Our shells appear in the size of facade elements, furniture, small and medium sized structures up to large scale buildings like the stadiums.
The semiotic system is designed to reveal a varying depth of information depending on the distance of the viewer to the building, the visitor‘s movement velocity and the possible movement of the shells themselves.
Our proposed design for the Olympic Games 2012 in Rio de Janeiro formally reconfigures all the built structures needed on the site to fit seamlessly into the homogenous urban tissue of the village.
PARA_MINIMAL
OLYMPIC VILLAGE // RIO DE JANEIRO 2016_summer 2012
Monir Karimi/ Jingjing Zhou / Erich Pratsch / Lorenz Krisai
