ciro najle general design bureau

SPbranching is a system of structural organization based on the proliferation of a branching principle from one to four components. SPbranching is the continuation and further evolution of experimentation previously developed by Frei Otto, with the purpose of expanding its scope beyond the constraints of its idealization. SPbranching proposes a differentiation of this model by providing it of higher tectonic fluidity and enhancing its infrastructural capability across scales and through a wider array of organizational specimens.

 

SPB000884, the first sample of the system, was built for an exhibition at the Architectural Association in London in year 2001. It consists of a primary system of steel bars bent in space and bundled locally by a secondary system of plastic ties, adaptive in their density to the deformation. Its upper surface was designed to support a series of floating books with easy access but unstable manipulation, whose reading makes the public aware of its presence in the venue, thus making explicit their distracted attention from the content.