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Ai Enhanced Pavilion

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AT: MSc DAC

Zainab Tariq

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Project draws inspiration from Gothic arches and heritage of the Arkwright Building. Based on the inside-outside spatial concept, the pavilion features a lightweight, modular rib system made of GFRP, enabling easy disassembly, relocation, and reconfiguration across various campus locations. Its intelligent ETFE skin adapts throughout the day, shifting from a transparent canopy to a glowing pink structure at night subtly reflecting NTU's visual identity. Parametrically designed using Grasshopper and prototyped with an Arduino Uno board, the structure explores digital fabrication and on-site assembly, making it a mobile, sustainable, performance driven, and spatially responsive design.

Project

This project reinterprets BIG’s The Twist as a responsive system. Using Grasshopper, the iconic twisted form is deconstructed into adjustable parameters, twist intensity, and segmentation. Arduino integration enables realtime adaptability, allowing the structure to shift, morph, and interact with its environment. The result is a dynamic reinterpretation of a static landmark, exploring new potentials for parametric responsive architecture.

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School of Architecture, Design & Built Environment
Nottingham Trent University
50 Shakespeare Street
Nottingham
NG1 4FQ

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