Disassembling The Eden Project

Class: Materials and Assembly | Professor: Jeremy Barbour

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Quick Sketches

Plan and Section (w/ Ground plane / Topography):

First attempt at a plan:

 

Form Finding / Nets:

The Hex-Tri-Hex pattern:

Assembly Details:

 

 

Material Studies – Models and Drawings

Class: Materials and Assembly | Professor: Jeremy Barbour

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Material Studies

    

Corresponding drawings

 

Making One of Them an Exterior Facade

 

 

The metal sheets, depicted with a heavier line weight, are the pieces that vary in order to grant either private or public spaces (as they place the wood on an angle, making the structure more dense).

The top bar marks the end or pause of the pattern. Perhaps this could be open completely where there is a window on the building, or simply when the top is reached.