Week 8 - Expression of Interest Group Presentation

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?