P.S 1 MoMa

P.S 1 MoMa

 Today we went to P.S. 1 and we saw their new structure which was made from organic mushrooms. It's very interesting how they compacted mushrooms into bricks and used it to build the structure. If the building wants to be demolished the bricks can become soil, which is good for the environment.

The best part of P.S. 1 is going to the roof because you see all of New York City and it's beautiful buildings. They have a beautiful garden up there.

AJ-726 Pavilion

AJ-726 Pavilion 

 Our pavilion is called AJ-726 because we couldn't come up with a name so we took our favorite letter and number. We wanted our pavilion to have a tent like structure with a little distortion to. That is why the model doesn't look straight and has a sort of a ramp to it. The pavilion would be used for a people who want to grab lunch with their friends and have place to eat in a close environment. 

Folding in Architecture

Folding in Architecture

Paper folding gives a very direct and intuitive perception and

comprehension of geometry and rigidity of 

folded plate structures.

Here are some buildings based on folding:

Festival Hall of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl

Located: Erl, Austria 

By: Delugan Meissel Associated Architects

Tel Aviv Museum of Art 

Located: Tel Aviv, Israel

By: Preston Scott Cohen, Inc

Panteon Nube

Located: Murcia, Spain

By: Clavel Arquitectos 

Catenary Strutures

Catenary Strutures 

Arches in the Casa Mila

Caternary by definition is the name for a curve that occurs naturally when a chain of uniform density is allowed to hang. It comes from the Latina term "catena", which means chain. 

Catenary is used in mathematics, often to find a function to represent a particular shape or situation. In history, Galileo was the first to study a catenary, but he mistaken the identified shape as a parabola. He believed that a hanging rope created the shape of a parabola.

Antonio Gaudi was a Spanish artist/architect and he said "There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature." He designed an apartment building in Barcelona called Casa Mila which was very unique. In the apartment building there are catenary arches. 

Casa Mila

In Casa Mila, there is a sculpture of hanging chains on the top level.  Since chains naturally form the shape of a catenary, it displays many catenaries in one sculpture.

Here are examples of other catenary arches:

Gateway Arch 

Kingdom Towers

Cameroon Africa