Sunscreen
Sun-screen is composed of a coupled unit consisting of two, embracing modules that aggregate to create a surface. The component for the project is strategic not only for its visual value, but also for its structural integrity and performative qualities: as one progresses around the object, the perforations created by the components serve as an aperture that expands and contracts based on the viewer’s location relative to the installation.
Sunscreen serves as a demonstration on the capabilities of digital fabrication, spatial studies and team work. Concerning the global form, sunscreen adapts to different surfaces typologies on the principle of its module. Because of the flexibility of the module, there are several different configurations that are possible concerning the global form. What’s presented as a wall may well be a hanging piece in a different configuration.
Institution
College of Architecture & Design, UH
Role
Undergraduate Seminar Course
Location + Year
Houston, TX - 2013
Sun-screen is composed of a coupled unit consisting of two, embracing modules that aggregate to create a surface. The component for the project is strategic not only for its visual value, but also for its structural integrity and performative qualities: as one progresses around the object, the perforations created by the components serve as an aperture that expands and contracts based on the viewer’s location relative to the installation.
Sunscreen serves as a demonstration on the capabilities of digital fabrication, spatial studies and team work. Concerning the global form, sunscreen adapts to different surfaces typologies on the principle of its module. Because of the flexibility of the module, there are several different configurations that are possible concerning the global form. What’s presented as a wall may well be a hanging piece in a different configuration.
In collaboration with INAR 3397 Interior Skins seminar students
Project Installation in the atrium of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture & Design and exhibited at the D3-Competition.