Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Masoud Akbarzadeh and the Polyhedral Structures Lab design team, Yiliang Shao and Yefan Zhi, for their winning design for Eventscape in the Inventory Constrained Competition. This is a design competition putting the spotlight on parametric design and advanced manufacturing processes to give new life and purpose to a pile of unwanted wood. The 1,450 feet overstock of pre-cut lengths of resilient black locust wood from a cancelled project could have been destined for the dump. Instead, Eventscape chose to take action on the environment impact of this and offer not only the building material but also its consulting support in digital and robotic fabrication workflows to realize the winning scheme.
Masoud and the Polyhedral Structures Lab received Judges Choice for their proposal, Dove Wave. This design is a canopy to be used as a performance stage for musicians or artists for different events at Eventscape NY. Their goals were to a) design a system that can span using the existing materials; b) maximize the use of the inventory material; c) minimize the waste; d) propose a simple while practical method of construction with minimal use of machine or secondary materials; e) consider the disassembly and afterlife reusability of the system. The result is a combination of ruled surface geometry and structural creases. The ruled surface geometry gives stiffness to each segment, and the ridges and valleys increase the adequate depth of the sections. They dovetailed the beam elements to make additional stiffness in the perpendicular direction.
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