|Valparaíso, Chile|
These pavilions are part of the Discrete Structures Project, developed by Dum Dum Lab since 2017. This project aims to show the architectural and tectonic potential of combining conventional on-site production and computer design. These small timber pavilions are fabricated as a testing tool for computational methodologies based on local adaptations for fabrication.
The three pavilions are small-scale industrialised timber structures designed using computational techniques under discrete element logic, which allowed the serialisation and optimisation of their parts. The virtual analysis and discretisation of their parts reveal and advance any possible preconceived ideas about the production standards of timber, allowing the development of innovative techniques free from conventional logic.
The pavilions are models in which the structure and space relationship is investigated iteratively. A design logic in which architecture is not described or prefigured allusively or analogically, as in drawing, but immanently simulated. Therefore, digital models are themselves architecture. The aesthetics achieved is a direct result of the capacity of industrial timber, which through vectorisation, allows the development of complex shapes with reasonable structural behaviour and simple and traditional joining systems.
The project focuses firstly on learning about the possibilities of digital fabrication in a real-world setting. Secondly, highlight the use of timber as a sustainable and versatile material. Finally, promote and consolidate the participation of the community in technologically valuable. projects.