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Digital canopy: high-end computation/low-tech construction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2003

Kristina Shea
Kristina Shea
Affiliation:
Dr Kristina Shea, Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, Trumpington Sreet, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, [email protected]
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The design and construction of this canopy and landscape for a small courtyard [1] took the form of an adventure in digital design and low-tech construction. The installation was for the end of year party in June 2002 at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. The courtyard occupies a central space in the school adjacent to the main lecture hall and contains a historic cobblestone court [2]. One of the design team, Neil Leach, proposed that it should be transformed into an enchanted garden suggestive of Dutch greenhouses and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Design
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 230 - 245
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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