This project is the façade design for one of the parking structure, McCarthy parking structure, on USC campus. The façade is facing the largest green space on USC campus on the west side.
This design is about form generation strategies and operations involving sampling, adaption and transformation as well as various techniques for producing repetitive and variable patterns; The relationship between objects and experience, particularly as it pertains to the modulation of ephemeral phenomena.
The starting point is a 2-D pattern found on campus. After tested various 2- and 3-D spatial organizational principles, I found an approach I called “triangle wave” and implemented on the design.
The “triangle wave” is evolved from a simple pattern that contains rectangular grid and diagonal lines cutting the grid into triangles. I wanted to create the distinct contrast between the grid in different scales and also the gradient effect that have more porosity at the places demanding more sunlight and less openings at the less sunlight demanding area. The change of scale is both in 2-D and 3-D. The area with larger grid scale has greater depth in 3-D.
The “triangle wave” is evolved from a simple pattern that contains rectangular grid and diagonal lines cutting the grid into triangles. I wanted to create the distinct contrast between the grid in different scales and also the gradient effect that have more porosity at the places demanding more sunlight and less openings at the less sunlight demanding area. The change of scale is both in 2-D and 3-D. The area with larger grid scale has greater depth in 3-D.
Also, this project is an exploration of the model making process of complex form, and modularized, or standardized, assembling technique.
