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The AVM pavilion is a lightweight shading structure inspired by the plant Dipcadi Serotinum and translated into a hybrid, double-layered monocoque shell structure using digital design tools. In this paper, a design-to-fabrication framework is presented to parametrically design, analyze, and manufacture the structure. It also documents the different stages of the project, such as heuristic prototyping, computational design, fabrication, and assembly. The resultant pavilion is a catenary shell discretized into petal-like, porous panels with bioinspired coloration that infill and brace an internal beam network. These components were designed as a kit-of-parts to facilitate manufacture and on-site assembly
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In this case, the AVM pavilion loosely alludes to the 18th-century Linnaean classification system of “Animal”, “Vegetable” and “Mineral”. The name was given on hindsight to the project’s completion and will be explained in the conclusion.
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The following students of the AVM pavilion design-build studio are acknowledged for their contribution to the project: Anaisabel Olvera Alacio, Arwa Alnasser, Donna Ashraf, Fay Elmutwalli, Forough Abadian, Mai Elhossiny, Mahdi Jandaghimeibodi, Nada Abushaqra, Nasser Alzayani, Noor Abu Shammalah, Petra Aji, Rahil Gupta, Rita Isshak, Sally Mekhaeil, Sara Aleem, Yara Gamal. The following professionals from Buro Happold engineering are acknowledged for performing structural analyses of the pavilion: Christopher Wodzicki (Director), Richard Cerfontyne (Associate). We would like to thank Juan Roldan (Associate Professor, AUS) for taking photographs of the pavilion. We would like to thank Ammar Kalo (Director of CAAD Labs, AUS), Habib Bitar (Student Volunteer), and Idrees Kanchwala (Student Volunteer) for helping us with the fabrication of the pavilion. We would like to thank Michael Hughes (Professor and former Department Head of Architecture, AUS) for his guidance and support of this project. We would like to thank the College of Architecture, Art and Design (CAAD) of the American University of Sharjah for funding this research project.
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Tracy, K., Jandaghimeibodi, M., Aleem, S., Gupta, R., Tan, Y.Y. (2022). AVM Pavilion: A Bio-inspired Integrative Design Project. In: Gerber, D., Pantazis, E., Bogosian, B., Nahmad, A., Miltiadis, C. (eds) Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Design Imperatives: The Future is Now. CAAD Futures 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1465. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1280-1_30
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