Fourth week: let’s get down to business

Hello architect makers….. With last week’s important insights from the engineers, we split into new and old groups and get to work. The flow of work and information is seen from one group to the next. Everybody is responsible for understanding their spot in the cycle and the friends they ought to communicate with so that workflow does not require longer hours.

The engineering group task is to place a fragment of the parametric model created in the Sofistik software (using a plugin in rhino) along with the plywood’s physical properties in order to estimate the deformation, shear forces, wind and support dimensions. This process is done with the support of Mor and Itamar from the firm. We further placed the full model in Karamba so that to compare The two softwares.

The bases group are the first to get physical on site, with the support weights calculated, the reinforcements in the concrete are structured and placed. Precautions are taken through the placements of additional steel pallets in the casting- in case the pavilion deforms the way karamba displays. Furthemore, the middle steel rods remain long for the purpose of attaching cables- this precaution is taken for the same purpose.

The joinery group decides on the strongest joint that best fits the pavilion and it is manually placed on the pieces before the first cut. The kerfing is also selected after the many experimentations and graph plots.

The coding team successfully coded the shifting modular shapes and later created a numbering system for the pieces so that once the building begins the work is organized and monitored. The numbered pieces are flattened, the kerfing code is placed, and the laser cutting begins…