BLOCK PARTY

Through the aggregation of individual components, this project aims to create and analyse complex spaces. The components were chosen based on their non-architectural composition, but, when they are aggregated, they suggest complex architectural spaces. The base components were first aggregated together to create meta-components. These meta-components were then aggregated again with a simple base component and either one or two meta-components. Through the process of exploration and elimination based on architectural aesthetics, meta-components were chosen. The formation of these meta-components was manipulated either horizontally or vertically by changing the heuristics and environmental container. This resulted in an urban tower intervention that allows horizontal terraces to grow from.

META-COMPONENTS SET

META-COMPONENTS AGGREGATIONS

‘TERRACES’ / HORIZONTAL GROWTH

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‘TOWER’ / HORIZONTAL GROWTH

BRANCHING TOWER PROTOTYPE

Block Party is a project of IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed in the Master of Advanced Architecture 2019/20 by Students: Zackary Bryson, Bruno Ganem Coutinho, Ilaena Mariam Napier, Hunter Paine

Tutors: Alessio Erioli, Andrea Graziano