Case Study

The IAC Building, InterActiveCorp Headquarters, is designed by Frank Gehry the site is located on the West Side Highway across from the Chelsea Piers Complex.

The nine-story concrete and glass building will house offices for InterActiveCorp, a group of Internet businesses with a focus on travel.

To reduce the overall scale Frank Gehry has broken the building down into 5 individual modules and set back the three upper penthouse towers to allow for rooftop terraces.
Each of the modules, stacked in two tiers, is formed by giving a five-story rectangular solid a one-quarter twist. The edges of the rectangles become curves.

On the side facing the river, the elevation will resemble a row of five glass town houses, crowned with three stretch penthouses. The glass will be insulated and have special coatings and patterned ceramic frits to improve energy efficiency.

Interior Images

Office workstations

Curtain Walls

The glass panels was custom engineered, 1349 galss panels unique in their shape and degree of twist.

Design Development
Frank Gehry early sketch concept of The IAC Building.

Early Sketch Drawing

Physical Models

Design development process resulted in a building that is both visually stunning and practically functional.

Computer models to study building geometry and constructability

Final design development

Sources:
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/gehry/iac/iac.html
http://www.iacbuilding.com

Week 10 Tasks

Interactive PDF

Interactive PDF

http://www.filefront.com/17293836/z3336210 interactive.pdf

Final Poster

Layar

TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/2fyswdj

Rendered Habitat Images

Prototype - Draft Poster Development

2 Architectural Pieces

ANTI-SMOG
LOCATION : Canal de l'Ourcq, Paris 19ème

Anti-Smog is a parasite project set up on the post-industrial urban structure of the Petite Ceinture and the canal de l’Ourcq in the 19th Parisian district. It is a public equipment dedicated to promote the last innovations on the theme of sustainable development in urban area in terms of housing or transport. Its role is to apply all the avant-garde renewable energies so as to fight against the Parisian smog. This smog (smoke + fog) is a bluish to reddish haze. It is the result of the water condensing (the fog) on the suspended dust and the presence of ozone in the troposphere. The smoke is produced in major part by the burning of fossil fuel and is composed of sulphurous gas (such as sulphur dioxide) in addition to the dust on which the water steam contained in the fog condensates itself. This photochemical cloud is associated to many detrimental effects for the health (asthma, infarct, AVC) and for the environment (acid rains, attrition of the building).


BIOCUBE, NEW NATO HEADQUARTERS
LOCATION : European Quarter, Brussels

Our project forms a big crystalline cube in levitation, unsticked from the square it recovers, perfect prism towards whom all the strength lines focus, all the approach perspectives, and that contains all the rooms dedicated to the Council of Ministers. This prism covers the old alignment of the rue de la Loi, which enables to move slightly forward the buildings that surround it on both sides. By its absolute form (a perfect cube), it presents itself as per magic by transforming the location... Through its transparency, its clarity, it reveals the rooms, these high locations of meetings of European summit conferences, object of this consultation. It will be the only building really crystalline, and its double glass layer, its fine structure all in metal lace makes its so specific forms appears that are the receptacles of the rooms. The cube itself is the receptacle of this set and forms a second layer, as climatic as physiological.

BuildAR Model

Darft Grid Layout

First Draft Poster Layout

Spore Habitat

Spore Building Influences

Spore Creatures

Eyemon

CoCo

eggie

Pinky

T-ball

Paper Folding