BAD CAFE BY NUDES ARCHITECT
LOCATION – MUMBAI , INDIA
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BRIEF OF THE PROJECT
The human skin is an anatomical barrier in bodily defense from pathogens and damage between the internal and external environment. It also contains nerve endings that react to touch, pressure, vibration, tissue injury, heat and cold.The average sq. inch of skin holds 650 sweat glands . . . on an average there are 100,000 strands of hair on a young adult amounting to approx. 2200 strands of hair per square inch . . . the human tongue has approx. 2000 to 8000 taste buds, taste buds are the receptors of taste and are involved in detecting the five elements of taste perception; sweet, sour, salty, bitter and spicy…the BAD Yoga project has 25,992 recycled pvc electrical conduits grafted onto its anatomy with surgical precision.
Situated in a historical village settlement in Bandra West (which has morphed in recent times due to socio-economic pressures and increasingly high land costs), the project is accessible by foot and cycle from parking zones in close proximity. Remotely located from traffic snarls and insulated from typically high levels of air and sound pollution, the project is sheathed in tranquility and peace.
The architectural component was designed to facilitate yoga, gastronomical experiences, and cultural event spaces for music, art, performances, intellectual discourse and fashion. These activities are stacked vertically over three levels, including an open to sky terrace courtyard.
The porous, perforated nature of the skin allows the project to breathe and ventilate thereby reinforcing the relationship between the inside and outside, between body and soul. The architectural component was designed to facilitate yoga, gastronomical experiences, and cultural event spaces for music, art, performances, intellectual discourse and fashion. These activities are stacked vertically over three levels, including an open to sky terrace courtyard. Rough tactile “true to material” textures draped in a striking “black” and “black” composition complete the user experience.
The architectural skin is composed of re-cycled PVC pipes. The dynamic “skin”, all of 25,992 black cylindrical conduits are grafted into CNC’d aluminum composite box panels.Digital design and fabrication tools were deployed to compose the entire system.
BAD CAFE , MUMBAI , INDIA
PSEUDO CODE
1. CONSTRUCT A SURFACE OF GIVEN LENGTH AND SUBDIVIDE TO SMALLER SURFACES .
2. DECONSTRUCT THE SURFACES TO EXTRACT THE VERTICES (POINTS)
3. SUBDIVIDE THE SURFACE AGAIN BUT WITH SMALLER DIVISIONS
4. EXTRACT THE CENTRE POINTS OF EACH DIVISION
5. USE CULL POINTS TO ELIMINATE ALTERNATE POINTS
6. USE PULL POINT TO GET THE DISTANCE OF THE REST OF THE POINTS FROM THE CULLED POINTS , THEREBY MAKING EACH CULL POINT AS AN ATTRACTOR
7. REMAP THE DISTANCES WITH THE TARGET DOMAIN AND ENTER THE REQUIRED START AND END DOMAIN TO GET VARYING LENGTHS
8. CONNECT THE POINTS TO THE LENGTH OF THE LINE SDL COMPONENT TO GET VARYING LENGTHS FROM THE SURFACE.
9. PIPE THE LINES TO GET THE INTENDED FACADE
10. VARY THE BOOLEAN TOGGLE TO GET DIFFERENT ITERATIONS.
THE SCRIPT
THE DESIGN
ITERATION 01 [ BOOLEAN PATTERN – TRUE – FALSE – TRUE – FALSE ]
ITERATION 02 [ BOOLEAN PATTERN – FALSE – FALSE – TRUE – TRUE ]
ITERATION 03 [ [ BOOLEAN PATTERN -FALSE – TRUE – FALSE – TRUE ]
VIEW 01
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REFERENCE
https://www.archdaily.com/796873/the-bad-cafe-nudes
http://www.thebadcafe.com/
Parametric Facade || BAD CAFE , MUMBAI is a project of IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at the Master in Advanced Architecture in 2018 by:
Student: DEEPAK MUDIKONDAN SUNDARAM
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, David Andres Leon
Assistant: Daniil Koshelyuk
