The Daniels Design and Computation Research Group, led by Professor Tom Bessai with Steven Beites, Meng Chan Tang, and Mark Watson, worked in collaboration with Campos Leckie of Vancouver and Oliver Neumann of the UBC School of Architecture on the design of a 30 foot long parametrically configured structure entitled INTER/SECTION that organizes the exhibition, High Performance: Evolution and Innovation in Canadian Design. 

The Daniels Design and Computation Research Group, led by Professor Tom Bessai with Steven Beites, Meng Chan Tang, and Mark Watson, worked in collaboration with Campos Leckie Studio of Vancouver and Oliver Neumann of the UBC School of Architecture on the design of a 30 foot long parametrically configured structure entitled INTER/SECTION that organizes the exhibition, High Performance: Evolution and Innovation in Canadian Design. 

On display at the Charles H. Scott Gallery in Vancouver over the course of the 2010 Olympics, the exhibition, curated by Greg Bellerby, features an array of hi-tech sports-related inventions and objects designed in Canada.

The exhibition pieces are arranged around a central meta-structure comprised of differentially profiled plywood frames. The changing sections of the frames were developed to locally reflect the position and orientation of the exhibited objects, defining both the space of the gallery and the relationship between viewer and exhibit. The deep vertical profiles of the meta-object were fabricated to minimize off-cuts and material waste.

The final design of INTER/SECTION emerged from an intensive period of testing of a range of relational modeling techniques using Rhinoceros Grasshopper, by which the exhibition objects were parametrically linked to the geometry of the central figure. Adjustment to the position of the objects produced geometric deformations in the meta-object.

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