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Fold Pavilion

For ARCH 564: Performance of Form - Geoffrey Goldberg

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Program: Outdoor Pavilion
Size: 50’ x 50’ x 45’
Floor Area: 2,500 sf.

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Fold Pavilion is an experiment in form and structure centered around an academic examination of the question: what makes a surface provocative? 
From a basic folding gesture came a top-down system of carefully curved custom glass panes, spider connectors, support ribs, and procedurally generated compression-only structural trees.

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Visualization of 3D force diagram to customized structural tree frameworks.

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(left) structural details showing tree to rib to glass connection system, (right) structural ribs laid out.

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