The design of the Sample BOX serves two simultaneous goals: to show the potential of the material Vitrakem for architecture (working as an exhibition of the multiple variations of the material), and to be a reference point for the people that pass by the Airport.
Conceptually, it has two main simple statements. First, it represents, in the literal sense of the name, a sample box of a specific material – Vitrakem. It is a ceramic material with 53 colors available in catalog, and these are the colors that the design contains and exhibits in its interior. Second, as a display object it has a defined exhibition space - an airport, a space for circulating and resting.
Negotiating these two assumptions, it results in a simple box that is carved through varying circulation paths and nesting/resting areas, revealing its colorful interior and the material in display. Besides the vertical display elements, the anthropomorphic conception of the circulation paths generates a topographic floor variation, contributing for a more interesting experience, either for the ones pass through it, either for the ones outside, observing someone varying in height while crossing it
Constructively, the exterior walls are constructed with layers of panels that form a sandwich one, composed by a wooden agglomerated and a Vitrakem sheet. The interior boards, with singular individual geometries, are CNC Water Jet cutted.
Regarding to the floor, it consists in a series of individually milled MDF blocks according to the specific geometries in the digital model, assembled to form the overall ground surface.
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DIAGRAMS: generation
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53 BOX COLOUR SCHEME & RESPECTIVE BOARDS FOR WATER JET
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
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GROUND SURFACE
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Rhinoceros