Post Host in CITY X - Fibrous Tower

Through technology and its advancements we are able to utilize digital fabrication techniques that redefine previous assumptions of material and assembly systems. Pultrusion of a carbon fiber strand system has particular advantages that can be explored through scripting techniques. The Toronto Dominion Center Towers, designed by Mies Van der Rohe, can be viewed as the most ideal host for developing a templating system.  The Toronto Dominion Center towers are our “host”. We will develop an additive system that will begin to embed itself within itself. Through this we will look at the moments that allow connection to be formed between the newly infected towers. The existing steel of  the towers would act like a scaffold, to allow for support and material to be transferred, but after the secondary material takes hold and Begins to gain strength within bundles; the original primary system can begin to recede or shift where it could not before. A new interpretation of floor space, façade design, patterning and transparency are questions on the table. Allowing for the carbon fibers to be a series of nested nests, a new rigidity is possible. Relying on a system of multi-layered pipes some can be seen as purely aesthetic, but no clear differentiation is made between the discrete layered systems. “This reaction is a kind of fashion”

EMMY.MARUTA / MATTHEW.NOE

Instructor: Peter Testa