The Portal - 3D Lamella Prototype w/ Aman Singhvi

    Lamella systems contain a particular logic; a construction system, that through geometrical arrangement, has a spanning potential far greater than any of its individual members. Our interest in this system was to use units of materials that were otherwise relegated to the waste yard.  We reduced the lamella to its basic primitive form in search of geometries that inherent to its logic.  Our project pulled what is typically a 2-dimentional system in a 3rd  dimension and explored it as a thickened wall and ceiling assembly made exclusively out of 2”x 2”x 24” members with only wooden dowel connections.  The resulting structure acts as a host for a window.  The window is part test, part commission, part media project, and part conceptual portal that transforms the structure from day to night.  This small bit of research is part of a larger wood agenda our group is currently pursuing at the GSD.