A blank page is both beautiful and scary
but you have to make that first line in
order to see progress you have to
capture your thoughts while your mind is
on fire there is no right or wrong you
have to not be afraid and let yourself
dive into the creating process we were
given the project instructions but
mostly we had the freedom to do whatever
we wanted
and the main theme was to create a
pavilion a flexible architectural open
space that invites people to come in and
spend time in it our way to decrease the
million ways that this project could
have gone was to focus mostly on
construction techniques that all the
members of the group enjoyed  and let
them lead us to the type and shspe of a
structure we liked after long hours of
Google and Pinterest haunt and we were all
fascinated by minimal surfaces
tensegrities and finding ways to make a
hard surface like wood bend
so the first cardboard model was made
trying to merge all these techniques
together but of course no one can be
satisfied by their first creation
because there are so many ways you think
you can improve it and that's what we
did we kept practicing form finding
either by making more cardboard models
because having something solid that you
can hold and see how it behaves in real
life in lighting and into an environment
is highly important or by using digital
means like 3d modeling and specifically
the use of grasshopper in rhino that
gave us direct visualization of changes
with a click of a button and that was a
major time saver after many trials and
errors especially on the stage of
working with wood and not paper anymore
started was super frustrating all the
calculations shapes and studies we made
with paper till then didn't work on wood
or at least we didn't have the time to
make it work and that was a major
turning point for us that moment we had
to take a step back actually hundreds of
steps back recharge our battery and then
we made a choice we went back back to
the first idea the idea that we when
thought was too simple and not enough we
now can proudly present the PLEXUS
plexus is a pavilion created for
activities such as reading and relaxing
the initial thinking was to create a
structure that will provide both private
and more public areas. This was achieved
by creating these perforated curved
surfaces .We wanted to find an easy to
construct technique, due to the curvature
and after many hours of testing we were
led to use  a grid that it will be
created by multiple intersecting stripes
of wood ,at every intersection point
there is an opening for the screws to be
added by assembling each screw the
desired curvature is gradually created
this process results in a
self-supporting construction since all
the strains and forces that are required
for the pavilion to stand are given by
the core and the ropes
even though plexus is easy to construct
in any site and environment it is
important that the ground that it will
accommodate it to have smooth and soft
soil in order to function as planned.
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