ABSTRACT

Olympic athletes are regarded as much for their peculiar behavioral tics as they are for their physical skills. While archery and beach volleyball are consumed, cardboard boxes are produced. A narrow-profile corrugator machine runs through the 5,000-seat beach volleyball stadium. The stadium and factory are thus embedded within one another and the audience confronts them both simultaneously. The building and its membrane are made of units with multiple interior and exterior surfaces; the membrane's various functions address the complex systems of consumption and production within the building. Folds in the individual units become structural, at once a new system of load-bearing bricks, a novel form of nutrient-transmitting thin skin, and a fitting envelope for a new type of building. The center hinge of each tethered program capsule allows for multiple use configurations. Network drawing functions as a gaming device to identify continually changing affiliations between various user groups within Olympic complex.