Piłujemy Kody Workshops

Architektura Parametryczna Summer Workshops
under Adrian Krężlik and Kacper Radziszewski

2015 Workshops in Piła (Western Poland) was a kind of a milestone for my development in a field of parametric design. We came upon with the idea of small pavilion containing nothing more but unbelievable thin (8 mm) plywood elements. Realisation of this lightweight structure, although it had been presenting some weak points, was really very good practical course of designing in spite of bringing ideas to life, not only drawing or rendering them, which is the end of the process for most of students. As a person selected to this task I had been responsible for creation of the main algorithm. At the time it was quite a challenge for me, but with a guiding help of the tutors it became a breakthrough and quite liberating experience.

The main task was to create a script dividing any kind of surface into a system of triangular structure/cladding elements following set features. This way generated elements and joints outlines had been straight-away ready to fabrication. Initially chosen curvilinear surface is being divided into panels, which are then offseted, enhanced by adding the mounting indentations engraved with identification numbers, and perforated according to the design. In the same time joints are described parametrically to create them accordingly to the angles between each pair of panels.
Perforation of the panels is changing according to the height of the element. Wholes are lowering the weight of the structure and give it the visual lighter appearance. Final structure got the contemporary, dynamic form.

photos by Michał Gosk and Michał Dybko