While heading to the Waterloo station I passed a tunnel and saw IMAX building covered with vines. As I looked up I found out that the vines grew up making a hole to the sky. Through that hole I could see the sky and buildings. The sight through that hole was like separating the frame and it was totally different from watching the whole view. When interpreted in a different way, the hole made a space for a light to pass and in result made a new visual space. That is, a hole is not a 'penetrated' thing, but a 'tunnel' or another 'eyes' that connects between spaces.

Through a hole we can see the details which we might have missed from the whole view. And that hole can also change the direction of the flow of a light. This time, the hole has been applied to interpret buildings from different point of views and to the drawing works. Below articles are the examples of re-structuring of light through a hole.

studio gramazio & kohler

THE OBLIQUE HOLE – DYNAMIC EDGES

gramazio & kohler – professors of architecture and digital fabrication
designed by
barbara leonardi – oliver dibrova – stefan förg – valeria tarkhova
robot THE OBLIQUE HOLE DYNAMIC EDGES

We were confronted with the task of distributing 2000 slanted holes over an irregular polygonal volume. Since this quantity of information cannot be managed with conventional CAD, we developed our own algorithmic tools. The density distribution was achieved through modelling an information landscape that completely enveloped the volume. A large distance between this body and this surface generated a high density of holes, and a smaller distance a small density. A further tool enabled us to orient the holes towards positions that could be placed freely in space. They could also grasp topological characteristics of the holes, such as their position in relation to the edges or corners of the body, and use this information again for their own logic of distribution and orientation.

distribution 1 THE OBLIQUE HOLE DYNAMIC EDGES

hole distribution according to solid angles

as workaround we used a system of diagonals, that helped us to describe the interior space. the diagonals are connected to the opposite edges without touching the planar faces. this kind of arrangement is unique. so the interior space can be described by angle measurement, setting the angle of a diagonal in relation to the adjacent face.