GAUDI'S PUFFY JACKET


Constructed during a three day intensive workshop led by SUPERMANOEUVRE. We built an 1:1 cement structure developed using the most advanced parametric tools. First we generated a virtual model in order to optimize the structural behaviours. Next we ended the process casting some of the pieces and joining them. Placed on the roof of the IAAC building, the structure provides shadow to the activities that occasionally could take place in this outdoor space. "Gaudi's Puffy Jacket" is a thin-shell precast pavilion completed in collaboration with the faculty and students of the Institute for Advanced Architecture Catalonia located in Barcelona. The pavilion is a playful tribute to the seminal research on form-finding conducted by Antonio Gaudi. The 3-day intensive design and making workshop explored the spatial, structural, material and ornamental opportunities that exist at the overlap of algorithmic modes of drawing; specifically recursive routines of growth, tiling and subdivision couple to analogue- and digitally-enacted methods of computation. →