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Mindy Ma


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Low Res:
Landscape Playset

In this project, different resolutions of panelization are deployed to transform various architectural elements: stairs, ground, wall, and roof.


Year: 2021 Fall
Course: Visual Representation II
Team Partner: Amber Zeng
Instructor: Iman Fayyad
1 Week


The original form stitches two helicoids and a minimal surface along their tangent lines and then is translated to a 20-foot-tall community outdoor playset.

In panelizing the original geometry using both secant planes and folded plates techniques, we introduced horizontal planes to create spaces of inhabitability and moments of playfulness. This is accomplished by both precisely imposing sets of extrinsic isocurves and selectively editing the discretized surfaces.