Forward Work/ was asked to render variations of the façade design, for consideration by the Architect and Owner. Variations in the vertical and horizontal elements material were detailed to exhibit different façade form possibilities.
Off The Grid is a deep investigation into Net-zero architecture. Our research encompasses passive and active sustainable designs contingent to site, as well as socioeconomic and political histories that have formed and prevented certain neighborhoods from positive growth. Our strategy is to deconstruct these barriers and allow these areas to strive in ways that are not limited to larger governing systems at play.
Due to the fluctuating tendencies of our new economy, an alternative operative system should be reserved in order to have an equally effective impact on the community as a primary system. This system would introduce a relay system that operates through the existing infrastructural systems within the city. The local effect will be the development of intelligent nodes (local participants, street hustlers, and other entrepreneurs) that communicate and form alliances with other intelligent nodes in adjacent districts, thus creating a sub-network within various infrastructural systems in the city.
Studies of fractal patterning lend themselves valuable in the development of parametric skin. This case study looks at the potential for systemic growth through geometric scaling. By identifying the structural DNA or syntax, in line and shape, the three dimensional model becomes the testing ground for these discoveries.
This study blurs the line between two and three dimensional geometry. At what point does flat drawing become object? The research looks at pushing the boundary of line and tone in pursuit of finding dormant topographies.
Iterative studies of figure and ground lend insight to potential spatial relationships. On and off, black and white, figure and ground, or solid and void, can all be equivalent to space and material. By experimenting with these binaries, a more extensive variety of spatial and material formations can be achieved.
