arch
an artificial environment welcoming visitors to Arch Summit 22
Mission:
design & construction
Client:
Luxexpo - the Box / Arch Summit
Location:
Luxembourg-city
Date:
2022
design & construction
Client:
Luxexpo - the Box / Arch Summit
Location:
Luxembourg-city
Date:
2022
Designed for Arch Summit - a two day tech event happening every year in Luxembourg -, the installation is conceived as a three dimensional artificial environment guiding visitors to the exhibition hall.
Arch is a physical translation of the rapidly evolving, digital influenced world we live in now. It is a dynamic and artificial landscape that transcends the concrete environment.
With fading limits and blurred edges, the structure aspires to cross the borders of reality and imagination, inspiring for new horizons.
In order to achieve such a level of complexity within a tight schedule of 6 weeks mission-to-delivery, computational methods have been implemented and allowed to design the geometry with precision while automating the fabrication process. Thanks to a close collaboration with the contractor from early design stages, the production aspects were programmed at the beginning of the project, ensuring a fast and fluid assembly phase.
The whole process has been executed within one Grasshopper script, including the optimisation of the nesting (piece placement on the material sheets) to reduce waste and the automatic production of the PDFs used for the CNC machine.
Arch is a physical translation of the rapidly evolving, digital influenced world we live in now. It is a dynamic and artificial landscape that transcends the concrete environment.
With fading limits and blurred edges, the structure aspires to cross the borders of reality and imagination, inspiring for new horizons.
In order to achieve such a level of complexity within a tight schedule of 6 weeks mission-to-delivery, computational methods have been implemented and allowed to design the geometry with precision while automating the fabrication process. Thanks to a close collaboration with the contractor from early design stages, the production aspects were programmed at the beginning of the project, ensuring a fast and fluid assembly phase.
The whole process has been executed within one Grasshopper script, including the optimisation of the nesting (piece placement on the material sheets) to reduce waste and the automatic production of the PDFs used for the CNC machine.
