Animated System of the Hive – UK Pavilion
Artist : Wolfgang Buttress
Architects : BDP
Location : Milan Expo
Year : 2015
The hive *Courtesy of UKTI
Brief
A decode of the logic of the pavilion, analysis and definition of the computational process behind aided by an animated visualization.
Pseudo Code
Development
1. Creating circles as sections of a sphere 2. Moving the circles in place to form the volume
3. Offsetting each circle and dividing for 4. Generating the voronoi pattern at each plane the points
5. Extruding and offsetting to create 6. Joining vertices vertical to create connections structural plates
Animation
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Final Render
Animated System of the Hive – UK Pavilion is a project of IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at the Master in Advanced Architecture (2019/2020) by:
Student: Vinay Prabhakar
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, Mohammad Elatab
Assistant: Ivan Marchuk
