Architecture aux limites du réel

Le studio américain Matter Design Studio composé de Wes McGee et Brandon Clifford nous présentent leur dernier projet baptisé La Voûte de LeFevre , entre art et architecture, entre technologie et matière noble.

Chaque pièce est traitée numériquement, calculée, calibrée tel un puzzle pour que les volumes et jeux de forces soient parfaits.

Un résultat bluffant, entièrement réalisé en contreplaqué.

Présentation du projet :

« The vault is com­puted with a solver-based model that elic­its a compression-only struc­ture, from a non-ideal geom­e­try. The model requires a fixed geom­e­try as input, and opens aper­tures in order to vary the weight of each unit. This dynamic sys­tem re-configures the weight of the units based on a vol­u­met­ric cal­cu­la­tion.

If unit A con­tains twice the vol­ume of unit B, then unit A weights twice as much. It requires that the mate­r­ial of the project be con­sis­tent, and solid (hol­low does not work).

The com­puted result pro­duces a project that will stand ‘for­ever’ as there is zero ten­sion in the sys­tem pre­cisely because of the weight and vol­ume of the project, and not in spite of it. The vault is pro­duced with Baltic Birch ply­wood. The ply­wood is sourced in three quar­ter inch thick sheets await­ing the ‘thick­en­ing’. Each cus­tom unit is dis­sected and sliced into these thick­nesses, cut from the sheets, and then phys­i­cally re-constituted into a rough vol­u­met­ric form of their final geom­e­try.

These roughs are indexed onto a full sheet and glued, vac­uum pressed, and re-placed onto the CNC (com­puter numer­i­cally con­trolled) router. »

On s’éloigne légèrement du Design abordé habituellement par la ligne éditoriale du blog, mais la recherche, les idées, les moyens, s’en rapprochent…

Plus d’informations sur le studio : Matter Design Studio

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