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London Apartment
London Apartment
Residential Interior
Apartment refurnishment in London.
Project Credits
Project Director: Francesco Brenta
Bubbles
Clean Air and Landscape
Orproject proposes the construction of an enclosed park within the city. The park houses a botanical garden, the air inside the park is clean, and temperature and humidity are controlled throughout the year. The buildings surrounding the park, which are connected to the controlled air system, can house apartments, offices and retail, but may also offer sports or medical facilities which make specific use of the healthy air.
Environmental Considerations
The geometry of the light-weight structural system has been generated using an algorithm which simulates the development of veins in leaves or butterfly wings. The heating and cooling of the air is done through a ground source heat exchange system. Electricity for the project can be generated by solar cells integrated into the canopy surface.
Botanical Gardens have been built in many world cities. They are attractions for tourists and recreational facilities for the inhabitants of the city. Both children and adults can experience nature and learn about the plants of the park. Inside the green houses, the temperature and humidity are controlled throughout the year, which allows the growth of plants from any climate. The plants and price levitra 50mg landscapes from all over the world can be placed inside the Bubbles project.
Economically Effective Construction
The idea of covering larger areas of a city by a transparent surface has most famously been proposed by Buckminster Fuller with his dome over New York, but his proposal was conceptual and would not be feasible to construct. However, Orproject together with a specialist contractor has developed a new type of construction system which is light-weight and economically effective.
The proposed roof system can be used to enclose an urban botanical garden, but the system also lends itself for many other applications at various scales: It can be used to economically enclose playgrounds or school yards, it can form the atrium of an office building or shopping mall, or it can be used to cover the gardens of an apartment complex.
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Naizoshoku Gaizoshoku
Naizoshoku Gaizoshoku
Cellular Growth Simulations
Orproject in collaboration with ATLV has completed the installations Naizoshoku and Gaizoshoku for the offices of IT company Baishan in Beijing. Inspired by the complex algorithms which the client’s company develops, the installations are based on algorithmic simulations of cellular growth processes as they occur in nature. Similar to the growth of organisms which is based on cell division and cell differentiation, the installations have been computationally “grown” out of a small set of initial cells. Those initial cells start to divide and multiply. Larger cellular accumulations are formed according to intercellular behaviors and external forces which are acting on the system and medicaments en vente libre cialis which guide the geometry towards its final shape.
Naizoshoku, the installation in the café are of the office, follows an internal proliferation of the cells which causes the installation to bulge out and develop into an intricately glowing ceiling structure.
Gaizoshoku, the installation in the lobby, is developed via a marginal cell division along its edges. It grows out of the reception desk towards the ceiling where it proliferates outwards to cover the lobby area.
Project Credits
Architects: Orproject & ATLV
Client: Baishan Cloud
Interior LDI: Pinshang Design
Project Architects: Christoph Klemmt, Rajat Sodhi, Satoru Sugihara
Project Manager: Shuai Yang
Project Team: Sambit Samant
Photography: Jiao Yang, Orproject
Sampa
The design of the spa and meditation building is inspired by the montainous environment of the site and aims to connect the building with the ground and the landscape. Rammed earth is used for the construction, making use of the environmentally friendly, ancient local building material.
The earth walls are arranged to create calming spaces and volumes, a relaxing athmosphere for the patrons of the hot spring bath. Natural light shines through the openings and allows views out into the landscape which the building has been constructed from.
Project Credits
Project Architects: Christoph Klemmt, Rajat Sodhi
Design Team: Chie Fuyuki, Chao Li, Sambit Samant
Material: Rammed earth
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Kama Ayurveda
Kama Ayurveda
Beauty Retail Interiors
The design of the more than 65 Kama Ayurveda beauty boutique interiors provides a high-level atmosphere to suit the philosophy of the products and generieke viagra professional the store’s clientele. All details in the stores are distinct, and all of the furniture is custom designed and manufactured for Kama Ayurveda. The design has evolved to suit spaces in airports, high-streets, shopping malls and shop-in-shops that are located across 25 cities in India.
Project Credits
Project Architect: Rajat Sodhi
Client: Kama Ayurveda
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Anabond
Anabond
Exhibition Stall
This trade-fair stall was designed for company Anabond to showcase their range of products. The portability aspect of the design required special considerations for assembly, packaging and transportation.
The stall consists of a front and a back wall. The front wall creates a window into the exhibition space and carries the brand’s identity and logo, whilst the rear wall showcases the products. For the design of the stall the waving timber surfaces were placed in two different orientations: The surfaces of the front wall were extruded perpendicular to the wall in order to allow views into the space, while the surfaces of the back wall were extruded along the wall to create an opaque background for the display. The stall is divided into three sections from the consideration of packaging and transport, so the waving surfaces are built in sections. The bent plywood surfaces are supported by a frame, while additional clear polycarbonate sheets provide tension.
Project Credits
Project Architects: Rajat Sodhi, Christoph Klemmt
Photographs: Anand Jaju
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Or1
Or1
Or1 was built for the Milan International Furniture Fair 2008, a vortex-shaped surface which reacts to sunlight. The polygonal segments of the surface react to ultra-violet light, mapping the position and intensity of solar rays. When in the shade, the segments of Or1 are translucent white. However, when hit by sunlight they become coloured, flooding the space below with different hues of light. At night, Or1 transforms into an enormous ‘chandelier’, disseminating light into the surrounding courtyard, an atmospheric space for events and gatherings.
The hues generated by the photoreactive surface are therefore indicators of changes in weather and daylight, a dynamic architectural tool that can be used on building exteriors. Or1 is skin, Or1 is shining, Or1 is the light Or the shade.
Or1 is the first time that photoreactive technology has been used on an architectural scale. The ecological structure is a step in exploring the possibilities of photoreactive materials in the fields of furniture and design. The beauty of Or1 is its constant interaction with the elements, each moment of the day is unique. Special software components have been developed in order to create the shapes and to generate the cutting schedules.
Project Credits
Architects: Orproject in collaboration with Scenario Architecture, Laura Micalizzi and Elisa Oddone
Structural Engineers: Arups
Sponsors: Simona, Vivimed
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Or2
Or2
Or2 was designed and built for the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrave Square, London, as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
OR2 is the further development of OR1, a single surface roof structure which reacts to sunlight. The polygonal segments of the surface react to ultra-violet light, mapping the position and intensity of solar rays. When in the shade, the segments of OR² are translucent white. However, when hit by sunlight they become coloured, flooding the space below with different hues of light. During the day OR2 becomes a shading device passively controlling the space below it. At night OR2 transforms into an enormous chandelier, disseminating light which has been collected by integrated photovoltaic cells during the day into the surrounding areas.
Special software components have been developed in order to create the shapes and to generate the cutting schedules. The individual elements were then automatically numbered and water jet cut. OR structures are the first ones to employ photo-reactive technology at an architectural scale, exploring its applicability to the fields of construction and design. The beauty of OR² is its constant interaction with the elements, at each moment of the day OR’s appearance is unique.
Project Credits
Architects: Orproject in collaboration with Laura Micalizzi
Structural Engineers: Arups
Sponsors: Simona, Vivimed
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Vana
Vana
Orproject developed a series of algorithms that digitally generate open and closed venation patterns, which can be used to simulate the growth of topiaries. The systems consist of a set of seed points that grow and branch towards target points in order to maximize exposure to light for each leaf. The resulting geometries fulfill these requirements and provide a suitable structural and circulatory system for the plant.
The structural system of topiaries acts mainly in compression and bending. Reversing this, we can obtain a geometry that performs as a tensile system. The installation Vana is designed as a single surface in tension that hangs from the ceiling and descends into the space as four columns of light. The surface is tessellated into triangular segments which are connected by stitched joints. Back lit with LEDs, light shines through the gaps and illuminates the space below with an immersive glow.
As the prototype for a large scale canopy construction, Vana has been developed as an iso-surface around an anastomotic network diagram, as the cortex around the venation system. In a continuous transformation, nature merges into architecture, columns merge into the sky and solid merges into the ephemeral. Vana appears to grow as tree-like branches blending into a continuous canopy that floats above the visitor. The installation was designed for the India Design Forum and is on display at The Brick House, Project Jan-Path, New Delhi.
Project Credits
Project Team: Sambit Samant, Manu Sharma
Photography: Sumedh Prasad and Orproject
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Anisotropia
Anisotropia
A Frozen Piece Of Music
Anisotropia is based on Klavierstück I, a composition for piano. The piano piece uses a twelve tone row which is repeated and altered by the different voices, in order to create complex rhythmic patterns.
Anisotropia becomes the physical manifestation of Klavierstück I, a frozen piece of music. The installation is based on a simple strip morphology instead of a twelve tone row, which creates the structure, openings and rhythm within itself, its repetition happening in space instead of time. Layers of the strips form the wall system, and the shifting and alteration of these patterns results in the formation of complex architectural rhythms which are used to control the light, view and shading properties of the structure. The system has also been used for our design proposal for Busan Opera House.
Shifting Tones
Klavierstück I uses a twelve tone row which starts with the lowest key of the piano. After its first cycle the row gets repeated, though shifted up by a halftone. However rather than translating up every tone by a halftone, only the lowest tone of the row is translated up by one octave. Like this the row remains the same, but its range has been shifted.
In the next repetition this shift continues, but the range now also gets reduced in its size: The lowest tone gets translated up by one octave again, and the second lowest tone gets dropped out, so that only the remaining eleven tones of the row are played. Instead of the twelve tones the range now only covers eleven tones, and also its length is reduced accordingly.
The range of the twelve tone row continues to be reduced and shifted upwards until only one tone is left in each repetition of the original row. Then the range grows again, and still moving upwards goes through further modulations: The different voices of the piece are starting to separate, the size of the different parallel ranges starts to diverge, they move around each other, until finally they grow together again, still moving up and their range fading out with the highest key of the piano.
Piano Piece No.1 is based on a simple row of the twelve tones, but by shifting and translating its range of influence, complex and continuously evolving rhythmic patterns are generated and turned into a floating field of sound.
Structure And Light
The proposed façade system becomes the physical manifestation of Klavierstück I. It uses parallel bamboo lamella which are creating the rhythmic structure. The basic unit of two strips is creating form into two dimensions, and becomes a straight extrusion into the third dimension. Like this it gets multiplied into the first two dimensions, where it develops and gets modified in the same way in which the twelve tone row gets repeated and modified in time.
The extrusion in the third dimensions allows for a horizontal modification during the development of the wall, which is used in a linear direction similar to the continuous upwards movement of the piano piece. In the piano piece always only the upper few tones of each twelve tone row are audible and create the floating field of rhythmic transformations. Similarly in the installation, only the peaks of each strip become visible and create a floating field of structure, shadow and light.
Project Credits
Designed by: Orproject and Xin Wang
Project Team: Shuai Yang, Duan Duan, Haobin Lee
Material: Bamboo
Photographs: Zhang Lu
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Engineering Design Tropisms
Engineering Design Tropisms
Bamboo Resin Joint
A moment-resisting joint for bamboo was developed by notching and intersecting two members and by then filling the resulting inner x-shaped chamber with epoxy resin. The joint allowed the construction within a distorted grid. Architectural and structural requirements were mediated by an agent-based simulation that controlled the placement of the robotically cut bamboo segments within the voxel grid. The project is the result of the AA Visiting School Vienna at the Angewandte.
Project Credits
Workshop: AA Visiting School at the Angewandte Vienna 2017
Tutors: Igor Pantic, Christoph Klemmt, Andrei Gheorghe
Fabrication: Philipp Hornung, Ananya Kango, Rajat Sodhi
Photography: Suryan Dang
Students: Carlos Leodegario Rios Toto, David Ruesskamp, Tullio Polisi, Ayax Abreu Garcia, Alexandra Ionesi, Leslie Baz, Rudolf Neumerkel, Karen Kuo, Andras Peter Domokos, Sorana Chiris, Alen Karic, David Erich Kienpointner,Sibilla Bonfanti, Azra Suljkic, Iurii Suchak
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Umami
Umami
Anisotropic Geometries
Orproject is pleased to present Umami Series, a bowl and a vase manufactured in stainless steel, which have been developed for manufacturer Art d’Inox. The prototypes were on display at the India Design, (p)ROTO-type 2.0 exhibition curated by Vishal K Dar, due for production of limited editions.
Orproject has used its research into anisotropic material aggregations to develop the geometries, which form networks, surfaces and volumes based on single curved metal sheets. Digitally calculated as material deformations of force-based vector fields, the morphologies create dense and open distributions of the steel strips that distort and form curved volumes. Both the vase and bowl are made up of undulating layers of stainless steel which meet and connect at varying intervals. This system creates a space-enclosing volume which nestles around the core of the vase or the objects to be placed on the bowl. As a result, the opacities and translucencies of the objects deviate and generate continuously flowing geometries.
Project Credits
Project Designer: Rajat Sodhi
Project Team: Sambit Samant
Client: Art d’Inox
Manufacturer: Rachaita Creative Solutions
Photographs: Sumedh Prasad