CONCEPT� is project explores the idea of cracking through tessellated patterns created by the façade.

Despite a lavish lifestyle, patriarch, Alec Barlow drove his family into bankruptcy. � e stress of trying to save his empire saw Barlow crack under the pressure and ultimately he took his own life.

� is idea of pressure and breakdown was the focus of my project.

Like the Barlow family, the site has clear stresses, with it being boxed in by other buildings. � is pressure causes cracking throughout the building, mainly on the north to south axis.

My initial idea was to create a façade informed by crumpled paper to represent the building being squashed by external forces. � is led to exploring form digitally, allowing for standardization and further form � nding.

To explore the idea of cracking further, I looked into how cracks form in nature. Being an emergent process it appears to be random but occurs as a pattern caused by a series of parameters. An example of this is mud � ats, where a� er the rains the � ats dry up in the hot climate and a cracking pattern develops. � e parameters for the mud � ats could be seen as climate and soil type.

To recreate this process, I used the idea of Conway’s Game of Life; a computer game in which the player inputs a series of rules which runs the game. In designing the � oor plans I created a set of rules in which triangles, informed by the façade, were placed into a grid. � e cracks in between the triangles and the triangles immediately adjacent to them were applied as � oor space. � e remaining triangles created the voids. Whilst the pattern is tessellated, it changes and adapts according to the rules. � is patterning is etched in the � oor.

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