:: SKY_LAB :: MINIMAL SURFACES + VISUAL- AND PATH POROSITY
MINIMAL SURFACES
Porosity is one of the qualities that characterize minimal surfaces and this is achieved in the topologies used in SKY_LAB. This porosity allows for a multiplicity of affiliations in the space generated by the spatial units and also a higher degree of selective visual connections. These qualities are noticed in the system from the spatial unit itself. In this case referred to a component which belongs to the batwing family of the triply periodic minimal surfaces.
When the possibilities of aggregation of the spatial units as components of space are studied, then a structure for a system is created. These different possibilities are supposed to be put together to generate a whole. But the fact that this whole has to actually be a space requires for a consistency of a system. Aggregation is proposed as a generative method of form, but in order to create a space, the units have to be integrated and not only aggregated.
This process of integration requires that the different meaning or use of each individual spatial unit (or component) blends in intentions and use with the rest of them. A family of components has been generated from the original one to integrate the different uses of space and connections that the user requires.
After the different components are arrayed together, they are informed according to the uses that the different spaces and surfaces are going to have in consideration with the client and the site.
VISUAL- AND PATH POROSITY
The spatial units can provide porosity by the diversity of connections that they provide. However, if they need to be taken further for their application in architecture, they have to offer some potential for inhabitation. If a potential for perception has been addressed by providing multiple connections in the space, it is certain that the potential for action has not been approached.
Different types of buildings provide different types of functions for their users. In this case, the space has to be inhabited hosting specific functions for their users. Regardless of what these specific functions are going to be, some degree of operativity had to be attained in the modelling process. The most determinant evidence of use of a space is the horizontal surface.
The client needs a system where the awareness would increase the synergy of the team. To increase this a system of visual porosity has been developed in the system on account of the property of porosity inherent in the system.
