Garage

The project involves a garage with an orangery built into the slope. It was to be fitted with a large window opening and a fixed sunshade that would allow plenty of daylight into the room at any time of year, while at the same time protecting it from direct sunlight. The challenge was to create a non-changing solar shading system that nevertheless responds to the different positions of the sun and the different angles of radiation in order to allow enough or not too much light into the room all year round and at any time of day.

The 3D print designed by Abraham Bonora consists of three scripted layers that are interwoven like a fabric. The parameter-based planes can be regulated by entering the position of the location and the associated position of the sun over the course of a year, so that the shape and the resulting openings are changed in such a way that an optimal incidence of light is created. In addition to this innovative parameter-based form finding, another new possibility of 3D concrete printing was also implemented. Formwork is normally required to shape the actually liquid material. Free forms, especially interwoven structures, can only be realized to a limited extent or with great effort. The "weaving technique" used here makes it possible to give the otherwise solid material a light and freely malleable appearance, which gives the room a special and new character as part of the architecture.