HEIKO
BA Modeling Lab
2022
HEIKO explores self-supporting structures through the hyperbolic paraboloid, developed within IUAV's Modeling and Materials Studio. Hand-worked PVC tubes reveal the material's formal versatility while distributing forces in balanced equilibrium. The resulting installation emerges as a lightweight membrane that negotiates between constructed space and surrounding landscape.
Material purity drives the formal logic. PVC's flexibility allow the structure to breathe with environmental shifts, creating a permeable threshold where interior and exterior continuously exchange.
HEIKO adapts to site conditions, its geometry responding to wind, light and topography.
The hyperbolic surface creates shaded interiors that frame landscape views while protecting from direct exposure, establishing a dialogue between structural precision and natural flux. Space becomes simultaneously shelter and lens.
HEIKO transforms industrial PVC into a living structure that mediates between human presence and environmental agency, revealing architecture's potential as adaptive landscape instrument.
Material purity drives the formal logic. PVC's flexibility allow the structure to breathe with environmental shifts, creating a permeable threshold where interior and exterior continuously exchange.
HEIKO adapts to site conditions, its geometry responding to wind, light and topography.
The hyperbolic surface creates shaded interiors that frame landscape views while protecting from direct exposure, establishing a dialogue between structural precision and natural flux. Space becomes simultaneously shelter and lens.
HEIKO transforms industrial PVC into a living structure that mediates between human presence and environmental agency, revealing architecture's potential as adaptive landscape instrument.