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Studio 1.2 - An Olympic Legacy 'Come Together'
Project details
Programme
Year
1
Tutors
Dave Edwards,
Melis van den Berg,
Wang Fung Chan,
Yolande Alves de Souza and
Daniel Linham
2022 represents the tenth anniversary of the 2012 Summer Olympic in London. The Here East building and its surrounding park are a lasting legacy of those games, billed as the most sustainable and regenerative games ever. The centrepiece of the opening ceremony was the Olympic cauldron, a manifestation that brought all nations together to celebrate the continuity of the Olympic movement. Historically, each Olympic ring represents a single continent and their diverse, physical, and cultural coming together, with the colours encapsulating the colour of all national flags.
Starting with this idea the project explores the intersection between the digital and the physical, using digital fabrication tools to speed up production, while utilising different digital media to test ideas not previously feasible. This approach is now becoming much more common, with concepts like swarms, clustering, aggregation, interlocking and weaving being common monikers, and all made possible by computation. In this post digital age, the power of computing can be harnessed, not only to manifest a designer’s will, but to hybridise designs against real-world constraints to develop new possibilities.
Students
- Cameron George Alexander Year 1
- Solomon Everest Ayres Year 1
- Sofea Binte Shahrin Year 1
- Miao (Candice) Dai Year 1
- Yaowen (Steven) Hu Year 1
- Xinzhe Jiang Year 1
- Yann Ling (Madeleine) Lee Year 1
- Elisa Maria Eliane Scalzone Year 1
- Marco Louis Michel Year 2
01
Pavilion – Burning Reflections
Burning Reflections – Team 1
Solomon Ayres, Sofea Binte Shahrin, Steven Hu, Marco Michel, Soyoung Park, Erhang Wang.
Burning Reflections – On Site
Life. Each Olympics is born in fire as a new torch is lit using the celestial power of the sun concentrated at an ancient site of gods. Fast, bright, changing, dangerous – fire captures the mesmerising energy and dynamism of the sporting event.
Burning Reflections – Olympic Park
An ode to fire translates to a form of sculptural chaos, lingering in a familiar shape, yet different from every angle – paths converge in a whirlwind of flame.
Burning Reflections – On Site
Legacy. The physical remains of the space receive a breath of life. As the passage of the Olympics transformed the industrial remains of Stratford, the industrial pallets have been reborn into architecture – blackened and burned.
02
Pavilion – Muscular Embrace
A Muscular Embrace – Team 2
Cameron Alexander, Candice Dai, Devlin Guthrie, Xinzhe (Linoe) Jiang, Madeleine (Yann) Lee, Elisa Scalzone.
Muscular Embrace – The Wall
At the heart of the Olympic Games exists an inherent dichotomy: although an international competition of physical fitness and athletic prowess, the event also exists as a symbol of unification that brings together countries from all around the world.
Muscular Embrace – The Spiral
The pavilion exists at the intersection of these fundamental characteristics and explores the conflict (and co-existence) of these amicable and adversarial interactions on both the microscopic – cellular – and macroscopic.
Muscular Embrace – The Wall in Place
Assembled from an array of muscular cells, the structure distorts the features and behaviour of the athletic figure. Arranged in varying configurations, the spatial performance is optimised for varying actions and interactions.
03
Next Iteration – Olympic Park
Cameron Alexander – Temporal Shadow
Digital collage: expanding the pavilion concept and reimagining it as a movable and adaptive canopy that provides shading and a landmark between the access bridges near the former Olympic stadium. The arms rotate and fan out following the sun.
Soloman (Sol) Ayres – Burning Reflections
Digital rendering: legacy mode is meant to be one of disassembly and consumption due to health and safety constraints. Actual burning was only permitted within this digital simulation.
Erhang Wang – Events Day
Digital collage: the next iteration proposal is located on the approach to the Olympic stadium and acts as a new gateway structure for ticket collection and a place for gathering. The assembled box modules combine to create visual illusions.
Soyoung Park – Burning Reflections Goes to Korea
Digital collage: reimagining the pavilion to take it out of its London context and into the Gyeongbokgung Palace of the Joseon dynasty, located north of Seoul, South Korea.
Sofea Binte-Shahrin – Bubbles
Digital collage: the original concept was that burning reflections would host flexible membranes to provide a reflective and distorted surface that invites the public to investigate.
Michel Marco – Slot and Stack
Digital collage on site: the next iteration focuses on the assembly of timber rods and stacking linear units to create a new structure. The structure landscape frames the fountain area and gateway structure to pass beneath on match days.
Yaowen (Steven) Hu – Chaos
Digital collage: this iteration takes strong inspiration from the work of artist Arne Quinze. It reimagines the pavilion as a complex canopy and seating area sited within the green spaces around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Elisa Scalzone – The Wetlands
Section drawing: this iteration inserts an expandable inflatable into each muscle unit, which can be formed into a canopy, to create a spiralling pathway around the wetlands of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Xinzhe (Linoe) Jiang – Muscular Embrace
Digital rendering: 3D model of the pavilion shows the original configuration first assembled in the Here East auditorium.
Yann-Ling (Madeleine) Lee – Doggy Olympics
Rendering: a concept to recreate the standard canine agility course out of reconfigured muscle units, which rescales and relocates the grasslands of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – an area popular with dogs and dog walkers alike.
Miao (Candice) Dai – Twisted Muscles
Plan drawing: this iteration explores muscle fibres and how these can knot and combine in different forms. In this instance the fibres combine into a semi-enclosed structure located in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and nestled amongst the trees.
Devlin Guthrie – Muscular Embrace"
Perspective Drawing: digital perspective drawing of the 'Muscular Embrace; pavilion's spiral section.
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