ABSTRACT
The idea for the pavilion emerged from certain characteristics of Chinese cities found in the Yunnan Province. The cities' rich characters provided initial research opportunities for a series of generative mappings scripted through Processing software. The design of an adaptive morphology and prototypical folded plate system spawn a series of intelligent modules. Multiple permutations of potential skin-structure systems emerged from scripting the behavioral logics of the units and their connections, generating speculations for small land large-scale movements within the membrane as well as fluctuations in each unit's porosity. The system provides moments of compression that wrap around itself, producing tight, stiff, columnar sections while also allowing areas for expansive spatial transformation. The incredible variation and flexibility of the membrane was tested by the constraints of a small and narrow site on Pratt Institute's campus. The site proposal presents a membrane which wraps around itself and turns inside-out, revealing ideas of disorientation and reversibility.
