The models in the Beyond gallery anticipate future building typologies based on principles refined throughout Norman Foster’s architectural career. Here, the inspiration of flight and the engagement of technology for ecological means find new applications.
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Beyond
Archive Selection
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· Spaceport America, New Mexico, United States of America 2006 - 2014
· Lunar Habitation Module, The Moon, 2012
· Apple Park, Cupertino, United States of America, 2009-2018
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The Lunar Habitation Module was created for the European Space Agency suggesting a system in which lunar soil is used to robotically 3D print a shelter that can withstand the climactic extremes, radiation, and meteoric occurrences of the moon. Through these strategies, a structure is created making the most of local resources while pushing technological boundaries. The creative possibilities of the structure are once again explored in this project through the successive 3D printed studies in the gallery of bone density as a natural inspiration for the structural shell of the lunar module. Various solar gain, ventilation, and structural studies in this gallery move between digital renderings and expressive 3D printed models. Even when looking far into the future, the models in the Beyond Archive Gallery demonstrate a continued dialogue between building and landscape. The process drawings for the new Apple campus integrated into the California landscape in contrast to the neighbouring suburban sprawl. Working from the existing precedent of a fragmented campus of individual buildings surrounding by parking, the process models work through different configurations before arriving at an integrated circular form. This scheme creates as much campus greenery as possible, recovering the pre-existing forest and its ecosystem, while creating a lush central communal area that thereby affords offices on either side panoramic views of the rejuvenated landscape.
In the Spaceport America model, these principles manifest in a terminal that emerges out of the terrain of New Mexico. A portion of the model’s clear acrylic roof is realized in the built work using an earthen finish so that the building’s profile merges with the rust-coloured ridges of the surrounding landscape while taking advantage of thermal insulation to maximize ecological performance. The Spaceport scheme expresses the dramatic axis established among the building’s access road, terminal, and runway. This organization is not only highly functional, integrating terminal and hangar programs, but also heightens the excitement of space travel by mixing travellers and astronauts in the carved building entrance and internal spaces.
The Lunar Habitation Module was created for the European Space Agency suggesting a system in which lunar soil is used to robotically 3D print a shelter that can withstand the climactic extremes, radiation, and meteoric occurrences of the moon. Through these strategies, a structure is created making the most of local resources while pushing technological boundaries. The creative possibilities of the structure are once again explored in this project through the successive 3D printed studies in the gallery of bone density as a natural inspiration for the structural shell of the lunar module. Various solar gain, ventilation, and structural studies in this gallery move between digital renderings and expressive 3D printed models.
Even when looking far into the future, the models in the Beyond Archive Gallery demonstrate a continued dialogue between building and landscape. The process drawings for the new Apple campus integrated into the California landscape in contrast to the neighbouring suburban sprawl. Working from the existing precedent of a fragmented campus of individual buildings surrounding by parking, the process models work through different configurations before arriving at an integrated circular form. This scheme creates as much campus greenery as possible, recovering the pre-existing forest and its ecosystem while creating a lush central communal area that thereby affords offices on either side panoramic views of the rejuvenated landscape.
In the Spaceport America model, these principles manifest in a terminal that emerges out of the terrain of New Mexico. A portion of the model’s clear acrylic roof is realized in the built work using an earthen finish so that the building’s profile merges with the rust-coloured ridges of the surrounding landscape while taking advantage of thermal insulation to maximize ecological performance. The Spaceport scheme expresses the dramatic axis established among the building’s access road, terminal, and runway. This organization is not only highly functional, integrating terminal and hangar programs, but also heightens the excitement of space travel by mixing travellers and astronauts in the carved building entrance and internal spaces.
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