DISTORTED GYM
This was an assignment for the Digital Media course during the second semester of my first year at Carnegie Mellon’s architecture program. The assignment involved taking an existing building and distorting it in Rhino to create a new space.
The original building is the Gammel Hellerup Gym in Denmark. The resulting transformation is inspired by the organic, bulging geometry of the gym's roof. The transformation is a ninety-degree twist in the middle of the existing volume. While the transformation seems simple, the resulting geometries and spaces drastically change the spatial qualities of the building.
PROCESS TRANSFORMATIONS
1. Initial Geometry
3. Geometry is separated
5. Corners are joined together by “Sweeping” the geometry together
7. Re-contextualized structure
2. The geometry is split in the middle along the red plane
4. One half is rotated ninety-degrees
6. Resultant geometry is mirrored