Screen Walls

2018

Given a series of images, students created new patterns using the extracted formal systems from the images. The next phase was to build on the images and concepts developed thus far, this time with the keen objective of transforming what we have generated into a three dimensional and active construct.

To do that we looked to a screen wall as a method, taking our last patterns and first developing them into extruded modules and then in some way applying them to a wall. Through confrontation of material realization and parametric study, students design and fabricated a 4’ x 4’ screen wall that is created from incremental changes of a chosen module. Certain modules come together and create patterns and movement, create a shadow, control the view, etc. Students used computational design and digital fabrication to make their screen walls.