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suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

danielle WILLEMS/annie KWON/ezio BLASETTI: Enneper Pavilion was developed for the Yorkshire Forward Comity for their annual summer festival. It is a playful exploration of designing through mathematical definitions.

The form of the pavilion emerges from the excess of surface of the Enneper-Weierstrass parameterization. The final outcome is an iterative negotiation between the external forces of a series of programmatic requirements and the surface minimization process. At once emblematic of its computational origin and perfomative because of its structural properties, the pavilion was designed to provide a different spin of the five petal white rose of the English Royal House of York, the symbol of Yorkshire.

sP: what or who influenced this project?

dW: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

sP: what were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?

dW: Matthew Barney, Henri Bergson, Alva Noto

sP: whose work is currently on your radar?

dW: francois roche, tokujin yoshioka, carsten nicolai