FLARE is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment.
Not sure if the image and movie are renderings or the real thing. Either way the site opens up the process and technical underpinnings that are valuable in an of themselves. If they ever get this built I am sure it will be mesmerizing.
These renders depict my final skin system. Conceptually, the skin is encasing a volume whose form has been dictated by the program areas within it. As a program applies and exerts pressure onto the facade, it adapts accordingly by densifying, spreading out, or deleting itself altogether.
These are renderings of the skin system deployed over the facade target surface. The images depict the skin system isolated, peeled from the rest of the building volume. These were done in Maya. read more
Peter Zumthor’s remarkable museum of modern art in Cologne meshes ancient and modern to create a timeless and evocative building. read more
The programmatic elements of the house can be further reinforced through an expressive assignment of materials and forms. Depicted here, the archive , positioned at a lower elevation, retains the cool temperatures of the earth which promote the preservation of family heirlooms and other various items. read more
Perspective section drawing illustrating the parallels of the sun’s rotation and the program layout of the STOCKhouse. Starting from midday to late afternoon, the procession through the house moves north, from the living room (public space) to the bedrooms (private space).
Framed here by the vertical circulation system of ramps, the roof scape provides a turbulent visual backdrop beyond the simple and refined geometry of the interior space. read more
Early massing studies for a tower of multiple twisting strands. In addition to rotating about the central core, the profile of each strand also varies over the height of the tower to produce a visually striking effect. read more
The sunken archive is the space in which many of the ideas surrounding the STOCKhouse will be embedded. read more
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