AA Visiting School conducted a 10 day workshop aimed at investigating novel means of engaging the public within the site of the Expo 2020.
AA Visiting School conducted a 10 day workshop aimed at investigating novel means of engaging the public within the site of the Expo 2020. This year themed on Articulate Performance, the resulting installation pieces will be on display until 6pm on July 26 at Warehouse E46, Al Serkal Avenue.
Now in its third year, the team collaborated on the design and fabrication of an installation, that emerged as the result of integrating technology at various scales of analogue and digital processes, to generate architectural articulations that synergistically performed as hybrids. Articulation, the celebration of the detail, has been approached as an architectural experiment by 4 groups, each solving different parts of the design: Material, Systems, Interaction and Computation.
Material use this year included fiberglass composites, tensile membranes, 3D printing, projection mapping and computational simulation of the material behavior.
This year the team hailed from North America, Asia and Europe and included: Riyad Joucka, (Architectural Association School of Architecture, Director of AAVSDXB, an architect based in New York City and co-Founder of MEAN (Middle East Architecture Network));
Sean Ahlquist, (Professor at University of Michigan and PhD Candidate at the University of Stuttgart), Alessandro Zomparelli, (Founder of MHOX and the Carapace Project, based in Bologna, Italy), and Hashem Joucka (Institute of Advanced Architecture of Cataluña IaaC, Barcelona, co-founder of MEAL (Middle East Architecture Laboratory)).
Presentations of the groups final pieces take place today (25th July) from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM At A4 Space Alserkal Avenue, with the final exhibition on display 25th July 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM and 26 July 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM At Warehouse E46.
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