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Part 2 Project 2003
Dimitrios Tsigos
 Architectural Association London | UK
Programmatic agenda

In the process of hybridising the airport lounge with the discotheque, the project generates several dilemmas regarding the merging of different administrational control levels but also the territorilization of informal tendencies.
The response towards both the above is the pursue of a hyper-flexible relationship between human inhabitation and an ever shifting material – environmental milieu called programmatic migration: The term describes the nomadic regime where human inhabitation is in constant negotiation with the architectural envelope within the prospect of ephemeral colonization of particular localities.

Architectural Envelope

The concept of programmatic migration triggers the pursue of a tectonic and architectural envelope where flexibility is a real-time process of adopting to the spatial and geometrical needs of changing programmatic assignment.

Structural hierarchy

The above agenda was employed a structural system of elastically deformable composite primary members: within such a system spatial deformations produced by point loading can be appropriated programmatically. The system features inhabitable surfaces and enclosure articulated as a fish skin – emulating flexible paneling system.



Dimitrios Tsigos joined Dip 4 both in his 4th and 5th year.
Collaboration and mutual support characterised the studio all
year long and pushed the discourse and design techniques to a very high level. Dimitri used this momentum to excel and to produce
a project for a discotheque/airport lounge hybrid for
Schiphol Airport, that challenged common notions of
programming through a non-deterministic dynamic distribution
of activities that seek their appropriate spatial and environmental
conditions. At the same time Dimitri developed a tectonic approach
based on a performative morphology, whithin which the exploitation of
elastic deformation and friction principles facilitate the
migratory programmes with a dynamic structure and envelope.

2003
aim/scope – site description
aim/scope – programmatic migration – structural flexibility
experiments – elastically deformable/woven isosceles truncated octahedron/primary member: analog model
experiments – elastically deformable/woven isosceles truncated octahedron/primary member: digital analysis
elastically deformable/woven isosceles truncated octahedron/ co-planar subdivisions: analog model
experiments – elastically deformable/woven isosceles truncated octahedron/ co-planar subdivisions: digital analysis
experiments – elastically deformable/woven isosceles truncated octahedron/ 3d subdivisions: analog model
experiments – elastically deformable/woven isosceles truncated octahedron/ 3d subdivisions: digital analysis
experiments – elastically deformable/woven isosceles truncated octahedron/ co-planar subdivisions: all deformations on base model
experiments – elastically deformable/woven isosceles truncated octahedron/ 3d subdivisions: all deformations on base model
program – project-specific charting of programmatic requirements
plan articulation - static: application of structural densities according to programmatic localities and requirements
plan articulation - dynamic: popularity of different programs along the plan according to different environmental conditions
ephemeral dynamic reconfiguration of plan according to nomadic programmatic regime (part of plan)
programmatic hybrid: creation of mixed control zones between the airport lounge and the discotheque according to their provisional aspect
programmatic hybrid: re-expression of activities as precise topological provisional constellations (extracted from case studies) occurring in a radial manner around a notional programmatic core
re- articulation of plan conceived as a multi layer patch work of inhabitation related parameters, such as geometry, structural density and provisions, which creates multiple potentials of hybridized contingency
exterior perspectives (animation between the two phases included in separate animation cd)
details of 1:50 kinetic model studying “fish scale” rigid panel surface, which slide along each other to adopt to forms dictated by the elastically deformable carbon-fiber primary members.
part of section (full drawing on animation cd)
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