cambridge MASSACHUSETTS
Harvard GSD
critic: lisa IWAMOTO & craig SCOTT
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
jeremy JIH: Vaultscape is a proposal for the 2012 San Francisco America’s Cup that attempts to reshape the structural geometries and material narrative of the architectural vault while producing a fluid spatial frame to support the variable scales of the Cup’s sailing races.
Vaulting System:
By customizing the construction geometries of the vault to the site and alternately selecting from two implicit barrel vault surfaces, continuous spaces which transition in scale are able to negotiate the attenuated expanse of the site while producing interior partitions and orientations of space as necessary. Complex curvatures not commonly associated with the vault type also emerge and begin to defamiliarize its form
Structural Design: Surface Perforation and Light
The desire for a patterned and perforated structural surface was paired with a need for light to penetrate the deep interior of the site while maintaining the structural integrity of the vault. Aperture dimensions and placement are given by stress information through finite element analysis, while aperture orientation is a function of programmatic lighting requirements, and is calibrated to solar elevations and azimuth information specific to San Francisco and the schedule of events for the America’s Cup.
Construction Narrative:
Planar board formworks are used to cast the vaulted and developable surfaces. These formworks are taken down after the casting process and become a geometrically mirrored deck below. The floor surface is suspended from the vault spring points, which are located on existing piles in the site.
sP: What or who influenced this project?
jJ: IwamotoScott.
sP: What were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?
jJ: Jorge Luis Borges (esp. the Library of Babel), Radiohead, Volver.
sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?
jJ: Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Junya Ishigami, Julie Mehretu.
March 5th, 2012 at 3:38 am
Beautiful and breathtaking!
March 5th, 2012 at 3:40 am
Great and different design
March 5th, 2012 at 4:02 am
Really wonderful designs, Is it wrong to say that I am loving them? 😀
March 5th, 2012 at 4:06 am
beautiful design and good concept
March 5th, 2012 at 4:20 am
Good Creativity and the best use of Technology.
March 5th, 2012 at 4:24 am
Great Design. Next level of thinking.
March 5th, 2012 at 4:35 am
good job if continues with more hit will be good
March 5th, 2012 at 4:57 am
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March 5th, 2012 at 4:59 am
Wow!!!!!!! what a job sir…..
March 5th, 2012 at 5:11 am
great work. the design is very nice and innovative.
March 5th, 2012 at 5:18 am
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March 5th, 2012 at 5:21 am
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March 5th, 2012 at 6:04 am
really interesting
March 5th, 2012 at 6:22 am
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March 5th, 2012 at 6:31 am
good one good innovative thinking
March 5th, 2012 at 6:32 am
Nice pices of architectural concept and design.just beutiful
March 5th, 2012 at 6:34 am
Great work! Keep it up!!
March 5th, 2012 at 6:37 am
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March 5th, 2012 at 6:45 am
nice collections
March 5th, 2012 at 6:58 am
I liked this concept.
March 5th, 2012 at 7:17 am
very smart design and a new thinking
March 5th, 2012 at 7:21 am
Good architectural design.
March 5th, 2012 at 7:24 am
Good design. The picture says it all.
March 5th, 2012 at 7:36 am
It is a great design.
March 5th, 2012 at 7:43 am
wow! its a great job nice collection of architectural photos
March 5th, 2012 at 7:44 am
Stunning work. good innovative thinking
March 5th, 2012 at 7:54 am
wow…what a design…
March 5th, 2012 at 7:59 am
Beautiful layout.
March 5th, 2012 at 8:25 am
great work. Really amazing.
March 5th, 2012 at 8:26 am
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March 5th, 2012 at 8:36 am
nice work,great design and wonderful concept keep it up.
March 5th, 2012 at 9:01 am
Thank u so much.
March 5th, 2012 at 9:08 am
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March 5th, 2012 at 9:09 am
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March 5th, 2012 at 9:27 am
superb really wonderful
March 5th, 2012 at 9:33 am
an innovative, creative architecture.
March 5th, 2012 at 9:42 am
The design is awesome.
March 5th, 2012 at 9:44 am
nice project on interesting concept. innovative design
March 5th, 2012 at 9:50 am
great design and wonderful concept
March 5th, 2012 at 9:51 am
WONDERFUL DESIGN
March 5th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Thanks so much for all the positive comments guys! And thanks for all the votes-I’m among the crowd-selected projects now, all with your help. Hopefully, it’ll be one of the projects prototyped!
March 6th, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Fantastic design! Waiting for more!
April 18th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
awesome building give us more