Expression of
Interest
material
performance Meg Varley, Bonnie Williams & Michelle Ho
timber / wood e.g. sturdy, solid, rigid e.g. flexible, movable, reactive
precedents
Voussoir Cloud’s design explores the unity of contrasting constructional logics: the pure compression of a vault with an ultralight sheet material
Voussoir Cloud IWAM OTO S C OTT
reverse engineering What we took away was the potential usage of the Kangaroo plugin to apply various amounts of pressure to alter the form of the structure dramatically
wood loop / dukta
Christian Kuhn and Serge Lunin
wooden textiles Elisa Strozyk
achim menges pavilions at stuttgart university
Rather than manipulating the material into a desired form, we allowed the form to evolve as a result of the material properties. “... Ideas of joining materials without adding materials or processes, like in weaving, where the joining is in the material itself, rather than in an additional binding agent, the joining is an extension of the material performance.�
our argument
grasshopper trials
proof of concept technique Each prototype encouraged a different type of movement eg. Rolling, twisting, bending, stretching etc.
moving forward
questions?