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Juan Lau

Juan Lau

Los Angeles, CA, US

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Stack Pavilion

Stack considers how digital fabrication may redefine typical light wood
frame construction systems. Working with typical 3/4” plywood (1/4”
in this mockup) it reduces complex geometry to near rectangular
profiles that fold into triangular units with inlaid shear panels. The units
are factory assembled into larger triangular modules which after
transport to the site, register measurable alignments for accurate and
efficient installation.
As and installation, Stacked was produced in conjunction with
Mockups, an exhibition of full-scale fabrications by Woodbury
University faculty and curated by David Freeland. A form of
representation ubiquitous in architectural practice, mockups are
typically associated with projects destined for construction, built by
contractors in order to verify the architects’ design intention at full
scale. Part of a disciplinary model that locates building expertise solely
within the realm of the contractor, the status of these pre-construction
mockups has been challenged by fabrication technologies that
reconnect design and building. Repositioning the mockup as method
for exploring the unbuilt and speculating on interfaces between digital
and physical opens up the possibility for new tectonic and spatial
agendas to develop outside standard modes of representation such
as drawings and renderings.

 
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Status: Built