ARCHITECTURE: CFS WALL MODULAR - PROTOTYPE A (2011)

Cross-Fabricated Scaled (CFS) is an investigative prototype of experimental cross-fabrications between geometry and materials research, serving as a crossover between architecture and art—with a high concentration on the developmental nature of experimentation and details, relating to the scalability of a singular, yet repeated, patterning unit.

The emphasis of this piece is the seamless transition between scales of a composite geometry, which is an evolution of topologies, exploring the physical properties intrinsic within the technique of digital and analog design experimentations.

 

 

In fostering the synthesis of repetition and variation within a scalable logic, Cross-Fabricated Scaled anchors its design experimentation in exploring the challenges of producing a continuous surface condition through a composite unit which has the ability to seamlessly scale up through the minimized connection of parts.


The form-finding investigation and evaluation included active lab testing of physical models, in conjunction with computer simulation and optimization processes through a CNC (3D) milled prototype of each individual module, which attaches to a framing system.



In addition, the fragility of the forms and differentiated materials were conceptually assessed through experimentation during the design development research process. The final [whole] wall is constructed of modular self-supporting aggregates that seamlessly unite through a minimal connection of parts, creating a gradient of tessellation across scales.


The collective units could possibly scale ad infinitum, yet the perception of its parts is diffused through its design that expresses a maximum variation for a minimum amount of parts, which also allows for ease of transportation and construction. In order to fully express the effect of the scalar transition, the repeated units are best viewed as a formalized wall partition system, which can divide or constructed within a taciturn space.



Credits:

Phase I - Design & Project Team:
Wendy W Fok, Sue Biolsi

Phase I - Technical Consultant:
Daniela Kroenhort

Phase II - Design & Project Team:
Wendy W Fok
Jimmy Tong - Fabrication Consultant

Phase II - Material Consultants:
+ DuPont Corian Asia Pacific
+ LG Hausys - HI-MACS Asia Pacific

Exhibited:
+ digitalFUTURES Shanghai 2011
+ Asian Design Forum - Singapore, 2010

Copyright © atelier//studio WF + WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC

ARCHITECTURE: CFS WALL MODULAR - PROTOTYPE A (2011)

Cross-Fabricated Scaled (CFS) is an investigative prototype of experimental cross-fabrications between geometry and materials research, serving as a crossover between architecture and art—with a high concentration on the developmental nature of experimentation and details, relating to the scalability of a singular, yet repeated, patterning unit.

The emphasis of this piece is the seamless transition between scales of a composite geometry, which is an evolution of topologies, exploring the physical properties intrinsic within the technique of digital and analog design experimentations.

 

 

In fostering the synthesis of repetition and variation within a scalable logic, Cross-Fabricated Scaled anchors its design experimentation in exploring the challenges of producing a continuous surface condition through a composite unit which has the ability to seamlessly scale up through the minimized connection of parts.


The form-finding investigation and evaluation included active lab testing of physical models, in conjunction with computer simulation and optimization processes through a CNC (3D) milled prototype of each individual module, which attaches to a framing system.



In addition, the fragility of the forms and differentiated materials were conceptually assessed through experimentation during the design development research process. The final [whole] wall is constructed of modular self-supporting aggregates that seamlessly unite through a minimal connection of parts, creating a gradient of tessellation across scales.


The collective units could possibly scale ad infinitum, yet the perception of its parts is diffused through its design that expresses a maximum variation for a minimum amount of parts, which also allows for ease of transportation and construction. In order to fully express the effect of the scalar transition, the repeated units are best viewed as a formalized wall partition system, which can divide or constructed within a taciturn space.



Credits:

Phase I - Design & Project Team:
Wendy W Fok, Sue Biolsi

Phase I - Technical Consultant:
Daniela Kroenhort

Phase II - Design & Project Team:
Wendy W Fok
Jimmy Tong - Fabrication Consultant

Phase II - Material Consultants:
+ DuPont Corian Asia Pacific
+ LG Hausys - HI-MACS Asia Pacific

Exhibited:
+ digitalFUTURES Shanghai 2011
+ Asian Design Forum - Singapore, 2010

Copyright © atelier//studio WF + WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC

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About:

spatial / geometrical / mathematical / material processing

The endeavours of Wendy W Fok's research-based projects are dedicated to the creation of designs interlaced within the principals of procedural-based mathematics, logics, and material studies, within the field of architecture, digital media, and design. Her designs are substantiated through explorations between the cross-pollination of spatial installation arts and novel architectural innovations embedded within urban cityscapes.


Wendy W Fok, director/founder and team member of WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC (Architecture) and atelier//studio-WF (Art), winner of the Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award (2009), and a selected designer of the Perspective 40 under 40 Award (2011), has a Master of Architecture & Certification of Urban Policy/Planning from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, with a concentration in Economics (Statistics) from Columbia University. Notably, WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC has been selected by Twenty+Change (co-curated by Heather Dubbeldam and Lola Sheppard) as one of twenty Emerging Canadian Design Practices (2011) in Canada.

Fok has an international background from Vienna, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong & Canada. Her art installations have been displayed in Dubai, Vancouver, Toronto, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, Athens, Venice, & Prague, and has worked on several international architectural projects, exhibitions, & competitions-- including the HKSZ Bi-City Biennale 2012, 12th La Biennale di Venezia 2011, the Shanghai Expo 2010, Athens Fringe Festival 2009, & Lower East Side Tenement Museum 2004/05.

Fok's interests are toward the investigations of contextual and content-related natures of fabrication, partnered with cradle-to-cradle material investigations that compliment scaled prototypes within architectural design. Meanwhile, her design methodology is to challenge the dynamic significance in structuring and mapping the ideals of art, architecture, and urbanism within the processes of [design | optimisation | fabrication] for resilient planning, material research, and alternative methods of fabrication with progressive aims within the built environment.

On her spare time, Fok is the founder & administrator of (C)ODE-(C)OLLECTIVE-- a collective forum for Grasshopper, Rhino, Parametric Modeling, & other digital media / design tools, which pose as an educational & developing archive site to formulate the critical utility of digital design-- an Associate Member of the HKPDA (Hong Kong Parametric Design Association), and Contributing / Overseas Editor for the a+a magazine, published by the Architectural Society of China.