Architecture
Recursive Sculpture
A conceptual tower designed as the library of the world — where information is distributed wirelessly rather than stored, and the building's geometry is generated by a recursive parametric algorithm.
- Year
- 2020
- Role
- Student
- Tools
- Rhino · Grasshopper
About this project
A master's programme design challenge with a deliberately open brief: design the library of the world, with no restrictions. Rather than centralising the collection in one place, the proposal distributes information access through a city-scale wifi network — with this tower as the broadcasting node, capable of 5G transmission, storing not only text but audio and video.
The geometry was generated algorithmically: the script takes six base points, a set of middle influence points, an iteration count, and size parameters to produce a recursive fractal structure. A contrasting communal area at the top provides spatial counterpoint to the tower's geometry.
The location is deliberately unspecific — somewhere near a large city, in a park. Modelled in Rhino and Grasshopper, rendered in Lumion.
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