0RN8 is interested in pursuing the creation of novel interiorities through the articulated elaboration of experimental and existing structural systems. The unfolding and differentiation of each tectonic system that is under analysis occurs within the defining parameters of the system s own inherent logic. The team s design research work commenced with a variety of parametric design studies, where the issues of frame and fabric were investigated, along with the idea of generating multilayered, tectonic systems, where each of the layers would be generated in an autopoietic manner. After experimenting with generic parametric systems, the filigree interiors of the gothic tectonic systems were chosen, as historical precedents that are the most efficient, in terms of qualitative differentiation, piecemeal construction and part-to-whole relationship intensities. Using the gothic vault bay tectonic system as a starting point, an analysis of rib curvatures and variable thicknesses and depths takes place, in an attempt to parametrize the entire vault bay and flying buttress structural system. This parametrization will eventually lead to the creation of a novel parametric, proto-design system, which will give birth to a variety of inherently adaptive interiorities.
0RN8 - - - - Cruz - - - - Kaprinis - - - - Popik - - - - Tsironi
paraGothic Interiorities --- phase I
Invited critics include Dana Cuff ---- Winka Dubbeldam ---- Francois Roche ---- David Ruy ---- Peter Testa ---- Brett Steele ---- Patrik Schumacher ---- Christos Passas ---- Alisa Andrasek ---- Theodore Spyropoulos ---- Yusuki Obuch ---- Rob Stuart-Smith ---- Marta Malé-Alemany ---- Bob Somol
