2020 | Pittsburgh, PA
Collaborators: Xu Xu
Instructors: Eddy Man Kim, Jinmo Rhee
Collaborators: Xu Xu
Instructors: Eddy Man Kim, Jinmo Rhee
For this project, our architectural proposition is to create a pavilion-like structure through the manipulation of conic surfaces. To do so, we divided the base circle of a cone into many equal distance segments, and drew a line between each dividing point and a single endpoint. Through the line segments, we generated multiple vertical cutting plans. And by finding the intersecting curves between the cone and the cutting plane, we were able to generate our base conic surface. A single conic surface we created has a triangular shape and curves downwards. By increasing the number of cutting surfaces, the conic surface also gets divided into more triangular parts. After around 9 times of dividing, the conic surface would result in a shape that is similar to a scallops shell. And by manipulating the conic surface further through commands such as mirror and rotate, we were able to create the final structure of our pavilion.
