11 St-Louis / PLASTI(k)

MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY™

ART + ARCHITECTURE ^ COMPUTATION [ Python / Rhinocommon SDK ]

11 St-Louis / PLASTI(k)

Plasti(K) Pavilion | St-Louis | 2011

Design: MARC FORNES :: THEVERYMANY™ ©2011
with Ken Tracy’s design/build studio at Washington University

THEVERYMANY™ : Marc Fornes (Principal), Jeff Quantz…
Digital fabrication: WashU / Ken Tracy,…

Many thanks to Kress Schwartz & Quadrant Plastic for the very generous material gift!

Engineering:
Will Laufs, PhD, PE, IWE, LEED AP @ Buro Happold
Principal | Facades and Specialty Structures

Photos: P.Nguyen + D.Mattiza

http://plastikpavilion.wordpress.com/

Material: 150 sheets 4*8 of Polyethylene

Many thanks to Kress Schwartz & Quadrant Plastic for the very generous material gift!

Many thanks to Ken Tracy and Washington University for supporting the project…

Many thanks to all the students for their help in the development, fabrication and assembly: Evan Barrett, Joshua Canez, Jaymon Diaz, Lydia Hagedorn, Taryn Harunah, Sarah Kott, Fitz Murphy, Jordan Smith, Anna Jia, Yiting Lin, Cameron Bence, Gina Gage, Jonathan Fridberg,…

PROGRESS SEQUENCE…

110722 | Nearly Finished! | Photo Emily Thompson

110722 | Nearly Finished! | Photo Austin Chod

110722 | Placing The Keystone… | Photos Austin Chod

110722 | Translucencies… | Photo Emily Thompson

110722 | Photo Austin Chod

110721 | Photo Emily Thompson

110721 | Photo Austin Chod

110721 | Photo Emily Thompson

110719 | Photo Matt White

110719 | Photo Emilie Thompson

110718 | Photo Matt White

110716 | Photo Emily Thompson

110714 | Bastille Day! | Photo Emily Thompson

110713 | Photo Emily Thompson

110711 | Photo Matt White

110709 | Summer push day1…

110508 | Site condition…

110508 | On site…

110508 | Site condition…

110514 | Assembly crush…

110508 | Ready to pour… (photo by Ken Tracy)

110419 | Infrastructure…

110417 | Logistic…

110417 | Thermoforming…

110417 | CNC cutting…

110417 | Creative environment as production space…

110415 | Logistic…

110412 | 01 | Full scale prototype

110412 | 02 | Full scale prototype

110412 | 03 | Full scale prototype

110412 | 04 | Full scale prototype

Getting there! | Once again many THX to Kress @ Quadrant Plastic for the all material.

**Variation on a theme

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Variation_T5-020

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MARC FORNES

MARC FORNES is a registered “Architecte DPLG” mixed with a fine connoisseur in computer science. Hidden under his label THEVERYMANY™ – www.theverymany.com – he is one of the leading figure in the development of computational protocols applied to the field of design and fabrication. He defines research and practice aganda as a quest for ”Explicit and Encoded”, “Precise Indetermination”, “Progressive Geometry” all seeking “Unconventional Futures”.

In 2004 he graduated with a Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the Design Research Lab of the Architectural Association in London after having previously studied in France and Sweden (KTH). Marc’s professional work experience in La Reunion, France, UK and the US includes SOM, Ross Lovegrove and ZAHA HADID Architects, where he was the project architect, from competition to tender documentation, for an experimental Mediatheque in Pau. During his three years on this project he directed the material research and geometrical development for what would have been the largest self-supported carbon fibre shell to date.

Marc – together with Francois Roche (R&Sie(n)) – started “(n)Certainties” – a graduate studio recurently hosted in Fall at Columbia University (NYC) with visiting ones at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and at Die Angewandte (Vienna) as its Cross Over studio. He since taught at University of Michigan and at Harvard/GSD. In parallel of academia – Marc is also teaching for McNeel numerous scripting workshops (Rhinoscript/Python) across the globe.

Under THEVERYMANY™ – Marc has designed and built a extensive body of large scale prototypical installations. He has been invited across the globe, lecturing at the MoMA (NYC), showing work at the Guggenheim (NYC) and is part of the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the FRAC Centre in Orleans. In 2007 he designed and launched – www.scriptedbypurpose.net – the first exhibition exclusively focusing on scripted processes within design – and curated in 2008 the European section for the Architecture Biennale in Beijing.

Contact: marcfornes-at-hotmail-dot-com

MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY™