The Pavilion Combines Global Technology and Local Manufacturing

프리패브리케이션과 파라메트릭디자인을 통해 구현한 ‘ENDESA WORLD FAB CONDENSER’ 파빌리온

바르셀로나의 글로리아스광장에 들어선 독특한 모양의 ‘The Endesa World Fab Condenser’는 MARGEN-LAB건축에서 디자인한 파빌리온이다. 약 20개의 삼각형 모듈로 구성된 파빌리온은 열역학과 생물기후학적 특성을 반영한 건축으로 파라메트릭 디자인, 환경적 요인, 디지털 구조 사이의 관계성을 토대로 만들어졌다.

외관을 구성하는 삼각형 모듈은 모두 이형패널로 구성되며 동일한 형식과 구조, 재료를 기반으로 한다. 서로 다른 형태의 패널들은 디지털패브리케이션기법을 통해 제작 속도를 증가시켰으며 파라메트릭디자인을 통해 기하학적인 변화에 대응할 수 있었다. MARGEN-LAB건축은 두 달에 걸쳐 알고리즘을 개발하였고, 모듈의 제작은 5일, 조립은 4일이 걸려 완성하였다.

파빌리온은 주변 환경의 열역학적으로 대응하고 기후학적인 프로세스에 영향을 받는다. 마치 소라모양을 닮은 건물은 여름철 태양의 복사열을 최소화하고 겨울철에는 태양의 허용면적을 최대화하기 위해 뒤틀어진 것이다. 또한, 풍속을 가속화시키고 맞통풍의 사용을 용이하게 하기 위해 돛과 유사한 형태의 표면을 제작하였다.

기하학적인 파빌리온을 탄생시키기 위해 MARGEN-LAB건축은 팹랩 네트워크와의 컬래버레이션 작업을 병행했으며 지역의 원자재를 가공함으로써 지역성에 부합하였다. 파빌리온에 사용된 모든 마감재는 나무와 린넨 등의 자연적인 소재를 사용하였고 재사용되거나 재활용될 수 있어 친환경적인 것이 특징적이다. ANN

Architect_ MARGEN-LAB

자료_ MARGEN-LAB, Photo by Adria Goula

The ENDESA WORLD FAB CONDENSER is a thermodynamic prototype, a bioclimatic dome installed at the fast-changing Plaça de Glories, within the framework of the BCN FAB10 Congress(the 10th international congress on digital fabrication). The prototype explores connections between parametric design, passive environmental strategies and local digital fabrication. It was designed globally(Margen-Lab in collaboration with IAAC and the Fab Lab Network), sourced locally(using only local organic materials, grown with the sun, linen and wood) and produced in proximity industries and Barcelona laboratories. Digital technologies are transforming the old ways of understanding prefabrication.

They are changing the ways in which industry manage production. And most importantly, they are changing the interrelations between designers, industries and raw material sourcing. The pavilion is composed by triangular 20 components. Components are all different but they share identical constructive and material logics. Parametric design bring us the possibility to work with such geometrical variation, while the identical component logics and digital fabrication technologies speed up communications(design-machine) and production process. The algorith was produced in 2 months, prefabrication concluded in 5 days and assembly completed in 4 days. The dome seeks to render the surrounding termodynamic and climatic processes. The initial geometry is first adapted to minimize incident solar radiation in summer while maximizing it in winter.

The skin is bulging and open in sail-like geometries to accelerate wind-speeds and facilitate the use of crossed ventilation. Nort-south orientation of openings follows mountain-sea direction(main Barcelona wind directions) generating repetititve morning-afternoon wind patterns. A perforated surrounding wooden floor, a platform of 200sqm, acts as a fress air reservoir, injected naturally into the main space each time wind flows. Digital fabrication shortens the links between raw material, post-prodessign, designer and final user. The project then becomes the whole life cycle of the projected product. The project is the production chain. The prototype was designed globaly(with the collaboration of the Fab Lab Network) and fabricated locally(using local materials and resources and BCN fabrication laboratories and factories). All used materials were natural(wood and linen) and locally sourced. The industries and companies involved were medium scale and locally based(in a range of 80 km). Finally, the assembly process is totally reversible. Wood and fabrics can be disassembled, reused or recycled.

MARGEN-LAB

Margen is an experimental design office focused on the intersections between fabrication, ecology, architecture and geography. Margen-lab has been historically characterized by working on the margins and peripheries of architecture, adapting foreing disciplines to propose new territories of opportunity. Designing processes rather than simple closed objects. Operating in multi-scalar frameworks, rather than focusing in a single scale. Rethinking the complete life cycle of things and their operative landscapes.

Project Architects: Daniel Ibáñez, Rodrigo Rubio/ MARGEN-LAB

Collaborator: FAB LAB NETWORK
Client: IAAC, ENDESA
Location: Plaça de les Glories Catalanes, 08013 Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain