ARCHITECT 11SON

 

 Gothic prosthesis is an exploration to determine how structural physics plays an important role in the Gothic design. Case was made by observing a prominent Gothic structure - the flying butress. 

 With the Gothic attitude, the idea inherited in workshop I is hence adapted in real architectural scale, with specific spatial identity and structural articulation. In this realization, a flying buttress is replaced with the proposed prosthesis. Initial studies in the properties and elements which are the essence of the Gothic is the origin of the computational logic. An agent-based algorithm is created by applying multi-objects idea with structural formation logic which reacts according to structural data. Like that of the Gothic edifice, the novel structure is opulently composed of rich overlapping elements, resulting in a prosthesis which is at once structural and ornamental.