RE-TIRED PAVILION
Parametric-Aided Reuse Design
This Group Project was started for a parametric design by Evan Levy and Nate Jones and myself and later enlisted a few other friends in studio to research the possibility of arraying tires vertically tension and compression. We used circle-packing scripts in Grasshopper 3D to mimic the actual diameters of tires we were given for free by local tire shops. We then worked iteratively and back and forth between digital and physical design, sourcing connection details that would allow us to modulate the angles of tire connections. We built a 1:1 scale chunk that could be disassembled and reassembled for our final review and are planning to reuse the tires in the next iteration sometime in the coming semester.
Project Future
Our professor recently acquired a large tract of land nearby Ithaca, NY and has extended an offer for us to test and build a larger scale pavilion on it as imagined in the above rendering. Professor Martin Miller has goals of creating an architecture commune with various experimental pavilions, and we hope the Re-Tired pavilion to be the first, as it will be virtually free to build and can hopefully generate some press and excitement.
