Be Palleto !

We'll be done on wednesday! so let's experiment our project and have some drinks with people from the school !

Day 5

It is still raining...

We were waiting for a sunny day..but no! We could say that it has been a quite relaxing day in the studio just trying somethings and developing some documentation. We take a break...today we don´t want to see more pallets! The weekend starts, let´s go to the fridaybar...maybe some beers will give us inspiration!

Day 4

Rain,rain and more rain!arggg!We continue working in the studio!We work in the way of getting the structure unified and how we could solve the critical points.We also develop the idea of placing some cantilevers around the structure and where we could place them. Lunch time!

It almost stop raining so we rush to the courtyard and start to try the concepts we have been developing during the morning.Five minutes after...starts raining again.The pallets are completely wet so they are even heavier.Three hours down the rain and we are as we had taken a shower. It´s time to go back to the studio take out the jacket and the shoes...hot cup of coffee :) Tomorrow more...hopefully the weather will be better!

No outside pictures today... instead you get some super nice pallet pornography!

Day 3

A rainy day. We are working back in the studio doing analysis of our recent attempts, listing advantages and disadvantages... Discussions, models, some coffee, pallets (in scale 1:20 of course)

modeling in 1:1

Although the first ideas became from the models, we had to try all the options on real scale, to know how to connect the pallets and how stable they were.

modeling in 1:20

Following our first model at a scale of 1:50 we decided to investigate our ideas further at a new scale of 1:20.

This is a better scale to work with to achieve results with small modules like pallets

modeling in 1:50

From the beginning we tried different ways of organizing the courtyard by using both organic and geometric principles in 1:50 respecting the natural flows of the people.

Model 1:50 helped us to visualize the dimensions of the courtyard and create relations between void and mass

Day 2

references

We were looking for different references to understand what kind of spacial and constructive qualities we can gain by using pallets, how many shape variations we can obtain by using very simple unit.

Fireplace Shelter in Trondheim, Norway

Space Pavilion by Alain Dempsey and Alvin Huang

Swoosh Pavilion at the Architectural Association

Theatre in Amsterdam, Denis Francois and Jan Korbes

Pallet Pavilion World Cup SKI Championships, Germany 2005, Matthias Loebermann and Parter

site survey

Every place has it own character, atmosphere... way people use to behave there... New design has to be done with understanding of existing situation

problem definition

Before to start we made several brainstorms to define issues of the current situation and main problems we have to deal with.

Day 1

GENERAL INFO:

WHAT?

- space to be

WHERE?

- AAA, Aarhus school of architecture

WHAT FOR?

- activate existing school courtyard

- discover potentials of using simple units

HOW?

- by using wooden palette

WHO?

- Alba Mínguez, Aron Davidsson, Darja Ostapceva, Diego García, Gali Sereisky, Paddy Roche, Paz Nevado, Ruth Carlens, Thibault Marcilly.

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RULES OF THE GAME:

time for implementation - one week

material - wooden pallets

fixations - cable ties

construction method - manual labour

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GUIDELINES:

- respect of the main flow instead of paved path

- respect of surroundings facades /openings

- existing functional zoning

- movement of the sun, daylight changes

- integrate existing tree and in-built furniture

- human module / scale

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ANTICIPATED USE:

place to sit, to climb, to lay down, to walk around, on top and underneath

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METHODS:

- brainstorm

- conceptual sketches

- discussions

- mapping / site survey and analysis

- models (1:50, 1:20, 1:1)

- experimental studies of statics, internal forces

- interviews of pedestrians

- photo-fixation

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