Napa Wongsakulyanon, Maha Yaqoob, Maria Nguyen

Our team previously explored a structural concept for a shade house concept using the relationship of solid and void to create a “porous structure”. Further developing the idea of a porous wall structure, we applied it to a real-life structure that features a structural brick framework, demonstrating the compressive strength of bricks themselves and their ability to provide shade and shelter for users. The framework consists of highlighting the points in a four-wall structure that need to be the strongest to hold up the four walls. Within the corners where the walls meet, we increased the density of the brick pattern to create a stronger structural framework. In order to implement the presence of a porous brick pattern that is structurally stable under compression, there needs to be a grid framework within the four walls, so we implemented rows of bricks as well as columns of bricks that resemble a grid that are dense in pattern in order to insert these windows of a porous wall pattern.