Double Jeopardy

View of the West Lounge from the corridor.

This strategy also enabled the designers to minimize construction time and cost by duplicating the fabricated elements.

The changing yet precise relation of surface to form demanded digital modeling and fabrication.

Crafting the digital work as a process of "full-scale" design necessitated a closer link between the craft of hand-work and the efficacy of mechanical repetition.

The West Lounge is used for large group meetings and social events.

The designers experimented with the relationship of pattern to surface by unfolding and refolding the form to create a family of surfaces which adapt to the formal contours.

The subsequent design of the panels and supporting structure was directly transferred via RHINO models to numerically controlled systems.

Using Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and RHINO they were able to efficiently generate a diverse set of techniques that could be used in a variety of materials and instances -- structural framing, tufting buttons, acrylic lenses and plates, fabric patterns for bean bags, and heater grilles -- enabling a controlled variety between the two sites.

Double Jeopardy - Surface Development 2 [opens in a pop-up window - 201kb image]

Surfaces were unfolded and refolded to adapt to the formal contours.

The lounges contain 6,854 custom cut acrylic pieces - 5,060 for light lenses and 1,794 for tufting buttons used in felt cushions.

Credits

• Text: Courtesy of the architect
• Photographs by Beth Singer, Courtesy of the architect
• Compiled and edited by Varun Ajani

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