Erosion Study
RESIDENTIAL
A BUILDING AND ITS CHARACTER SHAPED BY NATURE
The prevailing wind is both a challenge and an opportunity in this location. Like grass being affected by the prevailing wind, this building receives its character from shapes and surfaces created by wind erosion.
Combining the concept of shelter, protected by the façade where the winds are strongest, and the idea of disruption, the erosion gives a unique and strong identity to the building. ‘Modular erosion’ is only effective when taking double and triple-storey volumes out of the building. This larger-scale erosion could be used to divide the building programatically throughout to provide amenity spaces or building features.
From analysing the erosion on a microscopic level, analogies can be made with the response of the building.
Large volumetric erosion embodies centralities, while surface erosion dresses the façade with varying intensies, depending on the wind direction and orientation of the building.
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