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USF Serpentine Boardwalk - Finished photos |
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Serpentine Boardwalk - 2011
Project Location: USF, Tampa Boardwalk Design: Calvino Architecture Studio Site Engineering: Hamilton Engineering, Tampa, FL Construction Manager: Williams Company, Tampa, FL Steel Fabricator: Unlimited Welding, Orlando, FL. Concrete Piles: HJ Foundation, Miami, FL. Painting Contractor: Service Painting Contractors, Tampa, FL Composite Decking: Errington Construction, Clearwater, FL.
This boardwalk is conceptualized as a series of short bridges made of a double 6" steel pipe spine with CNC plasma cut ribs which support the rails, The entire structure is generated from a single line which is drawn to weave through the existing trees. The reason for this was that there was no survey at the beginning of the design phase. The surveyor could not get to the project until only a few days prior to the date the design had to be presented. So the parametric plug-in Grasshopper for Rhino3d was used to generate the entire digital model from the single curved line snaking through the many live-oaks at the north end of the boardwalk. This digital model was then used to create the construction drawings and even the fabrication drawings for computerized cutting of parts..
The Grasshopper definition is used to also parametrically stretch the ribs at certain locations to create the benches. Each rib is then extracted by the Grasshopper definition, laid flat, labeled with bridge section & rib location, and listed in 2 dimensions for export to a CAM program where they will all be turned into a G-code which will be sent directly to a CNC plasma, or laser machine to cut out all of the parts. The parts are notched and labeled so that there is no measuring required for assembly in the shop. |
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