This project uses the topological capacity of a game as an organizational device in architectural design. The first phase is to design a garden of 60000 sf.

Game: 3d cousin of tic-tac-toe. Capacity: dictate relationship between pieces by nodes and links.

Site: A transformation of the game is used to create a garden surface, imagined as an abandoned industrial site close to a dam.

The game is modified with physical laws such as gravitational and played on top of the garden surface to generate the first ecological layer of the garden - the water network.

The game is modified again and played on top of the first ecological layer to generate the second layer, and so on.

The studio imagined Fiber Placement Technology as an alternative future of building production and methodology.  The placement of each composite fiber is computationally controlled to optimize structural and programmatic requirements throughout the material of the pavilion.  Therefore the architectural effect is an elegant hybrid of spatial performance.

Marc Mintsioulis, M.Arch. I

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fiber pattern by processing

studio with fiber composite material.

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Miranda Chatfield and Emma Schain. 

CRP 1101, Spring 2009.