F2 PAVILION / MATSYS
Computational Design – Assignment 2
Our aim in this project is to create a grasshopper code where we will explore the geometry while learning about animated systems in the program. The code and animation for this assignment is done on F2 Pavilion by Matsys.
- Date: 2014,
- Size: 12m x 12m x 4.5m
- Materials: Spruce Timber Lathe, Coroplast Sheets, Steel Footings and Hardware
- Tools: Rhino, Grasshopper, Kangaroo
- Location: Travis Park, San Antonio, Texas
- Client: San Antonio Department for Creative and Cultural Development
// ABOUT THE PAVILION
The F2 Pavilion was designed and fabricated by University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) College of Architecture’s graduate students under the direction of Andrew Kudless, Director of Matsys and the 2014 Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Critic at UTSA, and Kevin McClellan, Co-Director at TEX-FAB and lecturer at UTSA. F² was fabricated and installed in Travis Park, a newly revitalized green space originally established as Travis Plaza in 1870. Located in the southeastern quadrant of the park adjacent to the historic St. Anthony Hotel, F² was a temporary installation in a rotating public art program in Travis Park.
Our aim in this project to create a grasshopper code where we will explore the geometry while learning about animated systems in the program.
//PHOTOGRAPHS
The F² pavilion is made from the simplest of materials: 1/2” x 2” wood assembled into a gridshell, covered in folded plastic panels that capture the light. Installation is assembled with over 4800 linear feet of spruce bolted together using over 1000 nuts and bolts, 2600 washers and 760 CNC cut Coroplast folded panels. Footings were water jet cut from 1/2’ steel plate and welded up and attached to 20 30” screw piles. The individual parts were fabricated over two weeks and then installed the work into its final form in 5 days by UTSA graduate students.
//PSEUDO CODE
//RENDER
//ANIMATION
Developed at the Master in Advanced Architecture in 2019 by:
Student: Deniz Akyürek
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, Mohamad Elatab
Assistant: Ivan Marchuk, Oana Taut
Links:
https://www.matsys.design/f2-pavilion