PARAMETRIC PAVILION

This assignment was for the Digital Media class during the second semester of my first year at Carnegie Melon’s architecture program. This project involved experimenting with implicit and generative modeling solutions in Rhino. The form of this structure was generated from an abstracted structural diagram of a bell pepper, which was then made into a module and duplicated multiple times. The repeating elliptical geometries within the structural system are generated from the seeds within the bell pepper.

The pavilion’s form is entirely parametric, meaning the overall form can be changed by editing the original 2D pattern that was derived from the abstracted structural diagram of the bell pepper.

PROCESS RATIONALIZATION

The primary structural system is formed from the structural system of a bell pepper, as seen from the horizontal cross section of the pepper. The seeds form on the outer edges of this structural system, thus influencing the modular design of how the structural system is created.

The entire structural system is formed from semi-circular modules. These semi-circular module are then used to create the cross-shaped structure that resembles the structural system of the bell-pepper as seen in a horizontal cross-section.