Lightwall Cirie, Turin, Italy ecoLogicStudio The concept of lightwall
reinterpret the traditional massive Italian wall as a thick solid
sponge, whose ability to absorb and filter heat, light and view can be
changed and adapted to contextual requirements. In a large villa
conversion project sun, light and privacy conditions where mapped on
the site and a wall solution of pre-cast concrete insulated and custom
designed blocks was chosen as preferred; using parametric modeling
tools, (Bentley Generative Components developed by Bentley and the
Smart Geometry group) eLS designed a system of spiraling cavities to
selectively manipulate the filtering potentials of the wall/sponge. The
ability to control, as a single connected system, both the geometry of
the holes and the overall wall/sponge behavior in relationship to the
contexts environmental pressures, allowed design to emerge as an
iterative process. Optimization resulted into a higher degree of
differentiation and architectural richness. Where the pores open the
view over the outside green landscape seams uninterrupted, yet the wall
is retaining 70% of its original mass.
