I designed the following three 1/2" scale courtyard sunshade prototypes in Auto-CAD and used a laser cutter for their production. The laser cutter may be old news to some of you, but it was my first time using it! Really happy with how this experiment turned out!
Sunshade 1 is inspired by Villanueva's Public Library in Colombia. His mildly haphazard wood screens have an amazing light quality! Instead of wood, the slats would be 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" x 2'-0" stone bolted together. I really love this sunshade because it fits so well into the neighborhood's unpretentious construction techniques. Also, it offers a new interpretation of stone's materiality which has been one of my goals throughout this design process.
Sunshade 1 is inspired by Villanueva's Public Library in Colombia. His mildly haphazard wood screens have an amazing light quality! Instead of wood, the slats would be 1-1/2" x 1-1/2" x 2'-0" stone bolted together. I really love this sunshade because it fits so well into the neighborhood's unpretentious construction techniques. Also, it offers a new interpretation of stone's materiality which has been one of my goals throughout this design process.
Sunshade 2 is derived from an iron screen at a church in Ramallah of which I took a photograph. I also got the idea for this when I was working on a laser-cut metal screen for a bar in the W Hotel in Atlanta as a winter intern at ICrave Design, a firm in New York. Sexy stuff! This screen is my favorite of the two oriental patterns! Materially, the two oriental screens would be made from paint electrically-applied onto metal.
Sunshade 3 is a pattern traced from a photograph of Bauhaus-inspired plaster walls framing a living room in a family friend's apartment in Tel Aviv. Simple and beautiful, too!
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