VERTICAL VINEYARD-TERM III
AIM:
The aim of the seminar in this term was to produce the 1:1 vertical wooden structure located in Valldaura with containers to grow vine plants. The vine plant is commonly cultivated horizontally, and its material structure doesn’t permit it – alone – to sustain a vertical growth pattern. The plant therefore necessitates a support, a structure, an architecture.The seminar’s goal is the design and construction of a project for a non-human user. In the same way that architecture traditionally accommodates human bodies, and is therefore derived from it’s dimensions, movements… we will examine the vine plant: its anatomy, its needs, its metabolism, its life cycle, its capacity to produce grapes. In the attempt to cultivate it remotely, we will remove the roots from the ground, from its terrain, introducing a local control of the resources as a hydroponic system. And the analysis of the anatomy of the plant will let us design a structure that will accommodate it branches and its growth.
At the end of the last term we had come up with several proposals for the structure of the vertical vineyard as well as the shape of the containers. The aim of the seminar in this term was to translate these designs into reality through workshops conducted at Valldaura.
METHODOLOGY:
-Design of the wooden structure using parametric design
-Fabrication of the basic wooden module and assembling them into different segments of the structure using non digital fabrication strategies
-Design of the container by the use of woven geotextiles and thread.
-Preparation of the site for erecting the structure
-Completion of final structure by assembling the parts into the whole
FINAL STRUCTURE:
CATALOG OF MEMBERS:
FOUNDATION 3D:
Foundation member
Foundation pilar
REINFORCEMENT MEMBERS:
Base Reinforcement-1 unit
Middle Reinforcement-1 unit
Top reinforcement-1 unit
FOUNDATION:
Foundation Bottom Triangle
TYPES OF MODULES:
Type A module (18 units)
Type B Module Extend bar (3 units)
Type C module Cut Bar (3 units)
Type D Module Cut Bar (6 units)
FINAL STRUCTURE:
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