RESEARCH - PRECEDENTS FOR ROOF-TOP ADDITIONS TO BUILDINGS

INITIAL IDEAS - RESEARCH FOR ANIMATION (GATHERING)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q93LBOSY3Lo

A concert inside Zumpthor's baths in Switzerland, reminded me of the article about buildings and the notion of "performance", of opening up, being flexible and allowing for unforseen events.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q93LBOSY3Lo


http://kibomkun.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/archdes101_report6.pdf Sean's feedback on my lasercutting project, he had some really interesting references he suggested I look at to further my interest in paper etc and there are some helpful comments about ways in which I could think about my work differently.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEazoVuwQ2s

Shigeru Ban:



http://www.christchurchcathedral.co.nz/

PEER REVIEWS AND FINAL FEEDBACK FOR LASERCUT PROJECT

WORK I REVIEWED:

Will Brooks: Animation

Lauren Collins: Augmenting Reality

Ye Jin Yoon: Animation

FEEDBACK I GOT ABOUT MY LASERCUT WORK:

blogs to look at to further my research : http://kibomkun.wordpress.com/

ELEVATIONS SECTIONS AND MATRIX

unfinished matrix

axonometric view

side view

rear view

side view

front view

plan view

FINAL MODEL INTERIOR LIGHT EFFECTS

This post shows photos of my finished 1:20 model. The model was lasercut from 3mm cardboard. Ideally I would've liked to make the model from sheets of handmade recycled paper to get the organic look I was going for but with each sheet of paper taking a few hours to make and because I was going to need 45 sheets, it wasn't going to happen in a week! But the effect with the cardboard model is very precise which is good for mapping out where the sinks and seating were inside the stall and the laser cut out the roof detail very nicely which allowed me to test the effects of light coming through the ceiling and casting patterns on the floor. 


There were a few problems I had with the finished product aside from the time-consuming process of teaching myself how to use illustrator, producing the illustrator file, labelling each piece, and gluing all the pieces together accurately.. the problems are with the overall effect - I would've liked a more organic curving look to the whole structure and I think my process (drawing and planning in 2D and then manufacturing in 2d and building into 3d) didn't help me plan out how the finished product would look. In future I would like to learn some 3d modelling software to enable me to design the product as a 3d object, then break it down into a 2d vector image, lasercut it and re-assemble it into the 3d form. 

looking in from front entrance

rear detail

side detail showing tree-like openings

front entrance showing interior sinks for soaking paper prior to processing

detail of what surface texture would be like if market stall was made from recycled paper pulp as intended

Interior view showing how light filters through the roof and casts patterns on the floor like light filtering through a forest canopy (to reference trees and their place in the production of paper and the recycling process)

dappled light filtering onto the ground through a forest canopy - this is the effect I am going for in the interior of my stall with the detail in the roof acting like the leaves of trees above to create this effect.

interior light effects

PAPER MACHE MODELLING

Some images showing my process for making papier mache sections of my structure. Soaked strips of newspaper in warm water for an hour or so then added more water and blended them in a food processor to form a grey pulp. Then strained most of the water our by hand and shaped into sections. Dried slowly in oven on low heat. 

For the second batch I added some PVA to make the sections stronger (and I hoped this would also make them more flexible but it seemed to make them much stronger but not flexible at all. Could experiment with more or less glue if I had more time. I found that when I heated the oven too hot to speed up the drying process, the red pigment from the text on the newspaper came to the surface dying the object pink which wasn't the look I was going for as most people associate the grey mottled texture with recycled paper so that was the look I was after. 

hand-shaped paper seedling containers

showing a nice texture that I imagine my structure would have if constructed in real life.  Not liking the pink colour though. 

section of my design - a corner and a flat wall. I would've liked to cut holes in this section with the laser cutter to illustrate how the holes might work on a larger scale but the lasercutter was being moved and was out of operation unfortunately. 

PUTTING TOGETHER THE LASERCUT MODEL

part way through assembly of the model with PVA

layers building up

the roof section, was very difficult to get the cuts to match exactly in illustrator as the shape of the object tapers so each layer is different. Was also difficult to match the holes up exactly over 6 layers as some of the holes were only 1x1mm and would easily be covered over if the layers were not placed exactly on top of one another. 

light coming through the perforations

layers building up before the roof section went on 

finished model without roof section applied

plan view

side elevation

side elevation

end elevation (entrance)

end elevation (rear)