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US Embassy London Facade Study

  • Academic Project
  • Arch 552, Institution Studio
  • Aug 2022 – Sep 2023

This project aims to reconstruct the facade of the new US Embassy in London using only basswood and to document and visualize the physical model using various digital media. Due to the limited information available about the embassy's structures, I utilized Grasshopper to simulate the geometry and structure of the facade. The Grasshopper simulation provided the lengths and quantities of each component.

To capture the unique geometry of the facade's framework, I created 12 jigs to bend the 1/16'' basswood into the desired curvature and assembled these thin, curved members with the thicker trusses. Subsequently, the physical model was scanned using a FARO Freestyle 2 Hand Scanner and cleaned up in FARO SCENE. I also explored various visual effects (VFX) techniques for the LiDAR.

play us-embassy-london/media/

LiDAR Scan of The Physical Model

open us-embassy-london/images/

US Embassy London Facade Study
US Embassy London Facade Study
US Embassy London Facade Study
Final Model
Final Model
US Embassy London Facade Study
US Embassy London Facade Study
US Embassy London Facade Study
Model Jig
Model Jig

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