“Housing in Vienna”

SPAN, 2007–8

This “pod family” was designed for the traveling exhibition “Housing in Vienna.” It demonstrates a clear evolution of the pod as it includes the creation of limbs evolving out of the shell-shaped system. Just three surfaces build up one pod.

The pod form is derived from the Cairo tessellation, whose inherent geometry allows it to repeat in multiple ways, thus creating manifold possibilities for assembling the exhibition in various given environments without compromising the overall appearance of the design.

Three shells form single pod.

Mobile-exhibition “colony of pods.”

Illumination tests with vacuum-formed prototype.

Illumination tests with vacuum-formed prototype.

Book Reference:

Digital Fabrications Architectural and Material Techniques by Lisa Iwamoto 
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