students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Bagia Pantou
The first studio of the master course involved the study of a tree. The aim of the studio was to measure the tree, to create a 3d model of it and to understand and interpret the way it grows and develops.
The tree assigned to us was cocculus laurifolius, which belongs to the moonseed family, native to the Himalayas. The specific specie is a shrub that can be trained as a tree. Some of its characteristics are the arching growing form, the slow growth and the large dense screen. Its leaves are also very characteristic with their 3 prominent veins, the pointed lanceolate shape and their dark green color.
Our field research leaded to the conclusion that the specific tree was trained to develop that geometry. Studying the trunk it was obvious that many of its branches were cut during its growth in order to gain height and become a tree. During its growth its shape and way of development were constantly changing as human intervention interrupted over and over again its development. The tree forgets constantly its previous development and produces new forms of growth in its new branches. The muscles growing from the trunk reaching to the main branches are a part of the development of the tree since it was constantly trying to counterbalance the weight of the new branches.
The final model derived from the geometry and the shape of the tree, of its way of growth and of the way it behaves to its environment. The parameters that were taken into consideration were the light, the forces of the tree and the human intervention. All of these parameters played an important role to the tree’s development and geometry.
The final model is a kind of shelter, an introverted space that is formed by ribs that intersect and weave forming new ribs. The structure is composed by a single component that has 7 starting points, 8 knots and 4 ending points. The component is multiplied, rotated and scaled until it reaches its final form.
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