Aaradhya Parakh

CT2012

Hanami : The Blooming Roof

The purpose of the structure designed was to create a space which was not concealed to itself but it allows the people interact with their surroundings while being under a roof. The structure when in undeployed form takes the shape of a flower and when it opens it gives a sensation of a blooming flower, thus it got its name. The structure is based on scissor mechanics. The structure is based on a simple scissor mechanism vault but the span of structure keeps changing at various points, and because of that it got its elliptical shape.

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Exercise 1

Exercise 2 and Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Final Exercise

Concept Behind the Structure Designed

Plans and Elevations

Joinery Details and Locking Systems

Weight of Structure, Load Transfer Mechanism and STAAD model

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