Shape Computation Lab

Minimal Impact | Education Center, Milledgeville, GA

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01. A reconfigurable machine.

02. Substitution of the kinetic parts of the diagram machine by functional program and adjacency relations

03. Delineation of the functional program and adjacency relations machine with exact areas of program

04. Deployment of the the areas of program over the nodes and the edges of the underlying graph.

05. Selection of the best sketch model to fit the site with a minimal impact.

06. Ground floor plan of the educational center.

07. Longitudinal section across the site.

08.Transverse section across the bridge of the two wings of the project.

09. Aerial view of the model

10. Close view of the clerestory space of the labs

11. Close view of the undulating roof edges

Ian Carlton

ARCH 3011: Architecture Design Studio

Athanassios Economou, PhD

Architecture Program

College of Architecture

Georgia Institute of Technology

Fall 2000

Keywords

Educational spaces; Functionally driven design; Rule-based design; Shape grammars; Landhuggers

The proposal for the education center at Bartram forest, an educational forest in the wider Milledgeville, GA, envisions a scientific apparatus for learning, a light machine that barely touches the ground creating a delicate educational space that hovers above the ground while inflicting the least damage and impact to the site. The apparatus itself is thought as a generative machine consisting of kinetic pairs is driven by program reconfiguring itself in a wide range of spatial positions before it stabilizes in the most suitable location and disposition in the site.