Keywords

Landhuggers studio; Visual computation; Typology; Variation; Shape grammars

The underlying parti of the design is based on a variation of network patterns inspired by Stiny's ice-ray grammar. The rules here are deployed in a combinatorial fashion connecting alternating sides of a square frame that is divided in five equal increments on each side to produce 25 different possible variations. These rules can be expanded or contracted on different angular shapes. An overall urban frame envelopes the complete bridge and both its flanking sides overlooking the i75/85 producing two structures on the ground level on either side of the bridge unified by a great canopy on top. The networks of the ice-ray recursively divide both parts into smaller networks to accommodate the complete program of the university innovation hub and hotel.