Finalist Proposal for DRL.10 Competition, by YME: Elif Erdine Baskin, Yevgeniy Beylkin, Margarita Valova

The AADRL.TEN Competition was organized in October by the AA Design Research Lab (DRL) to rethink and celebrate its 10th anniversary. More than 30 proposals were submitted by postDRL designers. YME has been selected as one of the 5 finalists with their parametrically generated pavilion.

The shape of the pavilion is mathematically generated by combining the properties of two non-orientable manifolds, the klein surface and mobius strip. The pavilion measures 10×7x4 meters and is intended to be a freestanding structure without anchoring to the ground.

The curved surface of the manifold is constructed out of planar fiber-C panels that are folded into forming ‘cells’ that are connected together to form the curvature. Paracloud software is used to populate the geometry with components.

• ParaCloud GEM at Work: A Pixelated Pavilion by Jacob Zolotovsky and Joseph Cory
• Panel Curvature Analysis
• Using Curvature Data as Driving Parameters
• Peak Performance: A Digital Design Workshop @ CITA, Copenhagen May 2008
• Relational Urbanism at work: ParaClouding by Groundlab Collective