Feature Project:
WA Award 24th Cycle winner
Archtriumph Mention
Date: Nov 2016
Category: Design-Build
Team Members: Paniz Farrokhsiar, Amir Armani Asl , Sina Sadeghi, Ali Zolfaghari

Reptile Pavilion

Transforming a wall as an initial tile-able piece of architecture to ceiling pushed some boundaries to create a double-curved surface while redefining a hyper-state of architectural element. This newborn special quality is infusing the wall, partition, ceiling, and floor; they are all merged and faded together. Ornaments can also be fused with the architecture; this is when serving as the main element is their prophecy!

Combining the Persian art of muqarnas tiling with Japanese origami folding techniques has created a new level of continuous tiling. Since mirror tiling has the effect of puzzling the reflected environment, using convex/concave reflective cells would unify everything together as a collage in an exaggerated way. To add this effect; tiles are meant to be chromized; leading to the distortion of the surroundings. . Stretching, scaling, and rotating the surrounding are the tools for these real-time textured tiles!

Origami tessellation would follow the free form parent-surface by responding to its curvatures. The flexible connectors would be varying from planner to a fully folded component. This logic would help the texture to tessellate almost every logical free form surface.