Scale UP: Filices x Labyrinth

Robotic Cartography / 2015

The Scale Up project can be broken down into two parts. The first phase is to make investigation and research into topic in detail on a small scale, and develop a system applied on a small scale transforming pavilion design. The other part is to merge two topics and develop a system applied on a large scale urban metabolism.

By tracing back the given topics (patterns) into physical medium, we could study more with the micro-perspective of the system so as to reveal the logic behind the pattern.  Selaginella Lepidophylla and Bismuth Crystal are perfect working as bridges from Filices and Labyrinth to transforming pavilions. Filices can shrink and expand depending on the stimulation of hydrate, and both of the items are self-repeated. Those features contribute most of establishing the small scale pavilion.

When converting the two system into a larger scale of urban design, we decided to focus on different aspects of them - Labyrinth plays the roles of anchors and Filiecs are flexible bonds. Borders become important in this case in term of how the two systems touch each other. Detailed renderings show two resolutions to every situation, parallel, tangent, penetrate, or huddle.