The beautiful structure is draped with glass, actually, 2 skins of glass are applied for controlling glare and unwanted solar radiation. This recreation was inspiring to follow as a structural roadmap. It is a very clever system of inner and outer skins combined with two tower spines that follow the ever-rotating floors. The rest of the structure goes from the inner core of one side outward toward either the inner skin or the outer skin that can then attach to a column and transfer some of the load. This is necessary in order to balance loads and reduce inner structural loads by having the inner core carry the entire load per floor. You are able to see the columns in the exploded diagram which I mentioned and the dual spines with the underlying ribs holding each floor to the outer columns or bones. Anatomically it is interesting as it is also Architecturally.
In both of the pictures here it is possible to see the fluctuation of floor sections and to see just how varying it becomes from floor to floor and even longer further down or up. It is also possible to see how some patterns of growing and or shrinking areas with varying success. It is incredible to see how the layers rotate to give this facade looking s-shaped pattern on the outer window.
Challenge
This was a unique and intriguing challenge to understand how the structure came together in order to reverse engineer it, and finally create it once again through my tools and methods. I thoroughly enjoyed the process of identifying the different features of the overall design in order to create layers and streamline the process. Every aspect of the design from the interior shifting floors area to the external cladding s-shaped design by the rotation of the internal floors. It is as vivid as the imagination allows one to venture without venturing into the impossible, it wanders all around the unachievable yet holds possible.
This has been one of my favorite projects in a long time! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
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