Shenzhen, China - This project is an investigation of the shed typology and the inherent implications of repetition in relation to the airport concourse. The project asserts that a modular flexibility can extend the intelligence of the shed through a methodology in which variation responds to a set of architectural criteria through various systems of correspondence. The issue of variation is addressed through the identification of two structural systems and the concourse's ability to benefit from their different performances and affects. Through the use of a flexible folded-plate hybrid base unit that can vary to transmit structural loads in both one-way and two-way directionalities, the project seeks to find congruencies between the two systems which are similar but posses inherently different topologies. A cohesive whole is achieved through a system of propagation that employs the iterative variation of parts to mediate between the two systems.
The part-to-whole relationship informed from a bottom-up approach allows for a library of units, each with unique characteristics, to be applied to different areas of the concourse. By identifying all of the performative and affective conditions beneficial to the concourse such as orientation, viewing, natural lighting and structural span, a taxonomy of base units is developed that can be combined together to form derivative units that respond simultaneously to different conditions. The systems of correspondence allow for a terminal in which a cohesive and synthetic relationship is formed through the resultant concourse's ability to adapt and respond through variation to given sets of performative and affective conditions....visit
David Jaubert
