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The Bougheries, New York : StreetFest Competition Entry
New Structure for American Competition design by atmos studio architects
Apr 25, 2013
Design: atmos studio
Location: New York City, USA
The Bougheries StreetFest
The Bougheries Structure
People are our greatest UNTAPPED CAPITAL – their grace and beauty too often left unremarked, uncaptured, and untraced.
The Bougheries project seeks to harness and reveal the extraordinary elegance and energy of humanity with a series of structures that map and mirror the ergonomics of everyday movements and gestures – from sitting to standing, lounging to laughing.
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The Bougheries are – like the trees that inspired them – multifunctional: structural, sheltering, entrancing and accommodating, their limbs inviting play and use, their sheathing delicately rippling in the breeze. They offer an endless real-time archive, constantly recording and celebrating the traces left by people, their limbs reconfigurable to form any range of shapes, ensuring only that their feet touch to self-brace.
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The 10 structures are all utterly unique, fusing structural analysis with ergonomic opportunism. Each is made from 4 bespoke CNCcarved laminated-plywood limbs that stack together and hinge open at their apex to form a self-bracing cross in plan.
The lower limbs further bifurcate to offer further stability and invite use. Each legs acts as a supple truss, perforated with optimised voids that are packed like a Swiss-Army Knife, laced with inlaid wiring and lighting and pockets for ballast, and embedded with useful tools and surfaces that unfold to form braces, chairs, tables, and shelves.
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The truss chords elongate to form hooks and fronds and structural cantilevers for counters and storage. A parametric Grasshopper script allows variation at will, generating cornucopic designs that range from bald to hairy, a few solitary protrusions, to thick wavy fronds. Further software optimises the nesting of components on the plywood sheets to create a no-waste eco-friendly solution.
Each unit is sheathed in an adjustable ultra-lightweight rip-stop nylon fabric that shelters its occupants with a canopy of virtual leaves, slits and cords allowing interconnection between units, or its evanescence.
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Location: 235 Bowery New York, NY 10002, New York City, USA
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