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TETRAVOLTAICS
Modular Tetrahedron System for Energy and Food Regeneration
Year Summer 2022 (In-Progress)
Location Mannheim, Germany
Advisor Daekwon Park (DDes)
Team Nicholas Chung, Chenhao Luo
Category Research Assistant
Publication The LandArtGenerator 2022
Award LANDARTGENERATOR 2022 Mannheim Design Competition // Short Listed
Location Mannheim, Germany
Advisor Daekwon Park (DDes)
Team Nicholas Chung, Chenhao Luo
Category Research Assistant
Publication The LandArtGenerator 2022
Award LANDARTGENERATOR 2022 Mannheim Design Competition // Short Listed
Situated near the city center of Mannheim, the selected site needs to serve as a gateway to the Rhein-Neckar Green Corridor.
This project envisions the public park as a collection of three distinctive smaller parks: the Community Park, the Garden Park, and the Solar Park. These parks serve as ecological resilience on the site’s southern edge and the residential and commercial
neighborhood on the northern edge.
In a sense, Tetravoltaic is an homage to Mannheim’s legacies, particularly related to experimentation in urban design and innovations in mobility (bicycle, tractor, and automobile). Inspired by the grid-patterned city center of Mannheim, the master plan embodies three autonomous grid systems. Each grid system forms the layout of the three smaller parks, and the network of bicycle and pedestrian paths links to the existing circulation infrastructure. The tetrahedron lattice modules can be assembled into various configurations, forms, and scales. As a modular design system, the application can range from furniture scale (bench, planter, streetlight) to architecture/landscape scale (lookout, greenhouse, aeroponic tower, rest pavilion, playground, irrigation system, bridges). The structures are made of sustainable materials and are designed and manufactured using computational design and digital fabrication techniques.
In a sense, Tetravoltaic is an homage to Mannheim’s legacies, particularly related to experimentation in urban design and innovations in mobility (bicycle, tractor, and automobile). Inspired by the grid-patterned city center of Mannheim, the master plan embodies three autonomous grid systems. Each grid system forms the layout of the three smaller parks, and the network of bicycle and pedestrian paths links to the existing circulation infrastructure. The tetrahedron lattice modules can be assembled into various configurations, forms, and scales. As a modular design system, the application can range from furniture scale (bench, planter, streetlight) to architecture/landscape scale (lookout, greenhouse, aeroponic tower, rest pavilion, playground, irrigation system, bridges). The structures are made of sustainable materials and are designed and manufactured using computational design and digital fabrication techniques.
Community Park provides amenities, including playgrounds, sports
and recreation spaces, rest stations, and art installations to
the surrounding communities.
Garden Park a productive landscape design that integrates food production with the public
park. Vegetables, herbs, and flowers are grown using variousmethods, such as raised beds, greenhouses, and aeroponic
towers.
Solar Park consists of large open areas and lawns for the neighborhoods, also a large park area to deploy a field of sail structures that harvest solar energy, collect rainwater, and provide shade to visitors.
Solar Park consists of large open areas and lawns for the neighborhoods, also a large park area to deploy a field of sail structures that harvest solar energy, collect rainwater, and provide shade to visitors.
Formwork Iterations
With use of computational tools and parametric experiments, the tetrapod form was reinvigorated from base geometry, generating variations based on different constraints.
Scripts on formal development was developed to aid the design process with considerations to different
constraints. Parameters are designed to alter the length and thickness of the geometry.
