The pavilion's design was created during the Summer School workshops organized by Architektura Parametryczna in August 2019. It was a time of 6 days to learn about the subject, Grasshopper classes, lectures, design, prototyping and digital fabrication. The main task was an optimization exercise. My group focused on sunshine and viewpoints (places worth seeing). We used LadyBug and the Octopus plug-in for calculations.
Our pavilion is a kind of shelter that can be placed anywhere; it can be a desert, a field meadow, a forest clearing, or a city rest stop. By placing it in a selected location, we optimized the shape so that it would give users shadow in the greatest sun while showing them the most beautiful places from a given location (designated by us).
The shape of the pavilion is designed on the basis of 4 arches giving two cut off hemispheres;bigger and smaller.It gives the opportunity to enter from both sides, it is airy but also allows you to find shelter.Suitable for spreading the blanket, pulling out food and resting in a beautiful place.
By placing it in a selected location, we optimized the shape so that it would give users shadow in the greatest sun while showing them the most beautiful places from a given location (designated by us).In each panel we determined the center, which was the beginning of the hole radius, if there was a nice view before it the hole was larger, while if the sun's rays fell in a given place for a long time the hole was smaller, or the panel was completely closed.The size of the window openings depends on optimization and results from pure calculation.
To be able to prototype our pavilion in plywood, which we had to use, we needed to shape the shape.We did not use ready-made plug-ins to create panels, we created a division from scratch so that later we could manipulate geometry freely. Connections between the panels that we used for the construction of the pavilion are very simple and rely on an additional element which is the wheel, which we cut with the two nearest panels.
Below you can find the final result of our pavilion in a small scale.
During workshops we fabricated one pavilion in 1:1 scale. It was assembled by the whole group. Here are some photos: