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Origami Pavilion

This pavilion project investigates how parametric design methodologies can generate adaptable, lightweight architectural systems through modular logic and precise geometric control. Developed using Rhino and Grasshopper, the pavilion is composed of repeated triangular frame units that aggregate into a larger spatial structure, demonstrating how simple rule-based relationships—angle, length, rotation, and connection—can produce complex architectural form.

The design process began at the component scale, where students defined a single triangular module and its joint conditions. Parametric controls allowed the module to flex, rotate, and adapt, ensuring consistency across the system while enabling variation in spatial configuration. These modules were then assembled into clustered formations, creating a pavilion that balances structural clarity with openness and porosity. The resulting geometry produces a rhythmic envelope that filters light, frames views, and establishes zones of gathering beneath the structure.

Materially, the pavilion emphasizes lightness and reversibility. Slender frame elements and translucent infill panels create a dynamic interplay of color, shadow, and transparency, allowing the pavilion to respond visually to changing environmental conditions throughout the day. The modular construction strategy supports ease of fabrication, transport, and assembly, positioning the pavilion as a temporary or deployable structure suitable for public landscapes, exhibitions, or community events.

As a pedagogical project, the pavilion serves as a bridge between computational abstraction and architectural realization. It foregrounds the relationship between digital design intent, structural logic, and human experience, encouraging students to understand parametric tools not as generators of form alone, but as systems for organizing space, material, and assembly at an architectural scale.

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