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Panelizing

Abstract:

This course introduces the structural and material choices that are engaged in the design, creation, and construction processes of architec-ture. Over the course of the semester, we investigate how materials have been used historically and how contemporary approaches successfully re-work and manipulate materials in innovative ways. Materials are rarely chosen for a singular reason; rather, their consideration is based on their performance and interaction with other systems. As such, materials are studied first for their individual properties and capabilities, and secondly, how they operate in chorus with other materials within architectural assemblies. The aim of this project was to utilize the metal bend-ing technique in order to create a parametric canopy. My design was selected for making a full scale installation in a group. The assembly process posed difficult design challenges due to the flexible nature of the sheet metal as well as gravity. The sheet metal flexed in areas of surface to surface connections that had not been accounted for during initial calculations of the scaled model. The assembly of the modules occured in groups and attached from the bottom up. Additional pieces were customized to connect the voids in between the groupings. The overall structure fused well together as each module provided counter balancing forces as a whole. While one module torqued outward the directly connected pieces torqued inward thus balancing the weight distribution. Upon completion of our inital design that erected the frame-work to 6’6” we wanted to further test the material strength again itself by adding an additional row along the bottom of the structure. This yielded a failure of the material against its own weight at the points of rest. The overall configuration crushed and deformed the newly added members thus providing us with a conclusion of miscalculated weight distribution that our modules miscalculated weight distribution that our modules were unable to sustain at certain moments of rest.

Applied Studies : Materials & Tectonics, Sci-arc, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2010Tutor: Robert A. Ley Software: Rhino, GrasshopperWeblog: http://goo.gl/0JGzmPanelizing

Applied Studies : Materials & Tectonics, Sci-arc, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2010Tutor: Robert A. Ley Software: Rhino, GrasshopperWeblog: http://goo.gl/0JGzmPanelizing

8’-0” SHEET

EQ EQEQEQ

RIVET

LOCATION

TYP.

PLATR

CONNECTION

AREA

20.GA STEEL SHEET

TYPICAL

SCORE LINEEQ

EQEQ

EQ

11

1/4”

4”2 1/4”

90

2’ - 5”

4’ - 0”

THREADED STEELROD TENSIONSTIFFENER ASREQUIRED

ANGLES VARY

125

MODULECONNECTOR

PLATE(RIVETED)

MODULE BOLTLOCATION

(FACET VARIES)

RIVET LOCATION TYP.

SCORE / FOLD LINE (MATCHMODULE ANGLE)

20. GA STEELCONNECTOR PLATE

NOTCH AS REQUIRED

1 Paper model process2 Documentation3 Final paper model

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68

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Front Elevation Side Elevation Perspective

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70

1 Full scale model process2 Drawing3 Full scale/ metal model

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The assembly process posed difficult design challenges due to the flexible nature of the sheet metal as well as gravity. The sheet metal flexed in areas of surface to surface connections that had not been accounted for during initial calculations of the scaled model. The assembly of the modules occured in groups and attached from the bottom up. Additional pieces were customized to connect the voids in between the groupings.The overall structure fused well together as each module provided counter balancing forces as a whole. While one module torqued outward the directly connected pieces torqued inward thus balancing the weight distribution.Upon completion of our inital design that erected the framework to 6’6” we wanted to further test the material strength again itself by adding an additional row along the bottom of the structure. This yielded a failure of the material against its own weight at the points of rest. The overall configuration crushed and deformed the newly added members thus providing us with a conclusion of miscalculated weight distribution that our modules were unable to sustain at certain moments of rest.

APPLIED STUDIES, SCI-ARC, 2010-12