Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Sprung Instant Structures



I found this video on 'Sprung Instant Structures' and am very intrigued by it.
It is manufactured off site and shipped before being very quickly installed. It can be expanded easily, it claims to be very well insulated for complete variations in climates, designs are fare from rigid and can look quite good (curves seem not only easy but mandatory).
Some more research into the material is required.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Esquisse 1

For the first day on Thursday we kick started the semester with a creative thinking excercise, coming up with ideas and concepts for adaptability, which is to lead into project 1.

We focussed on 'foldability' of 2d shapes to create forms. Our final model grew progressively from card folded into a series of triangles. Many different shapes were discovered until this final one, a star shape, which we felt had interesting form and features:



We imagine it being of a very large scale, and entrances are created out of every 2nd indentation into the star.