Archinect member and Georia Tech alumni weave has just posted several images of the recently completed installments at the Georgia Tech College of Architecture. These installments are of digitally fabricated projects using varying materials. The class was instructed by Monica Ponce de Leon and was split between design (1 semester) and building (1 semester). Each student group was given a budget to fabricate their designs. This was done in collaboration w/ the Georgia Tech Advanced Wood Products Lab, a research institution of the college of architecture. View Images
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"archinect member and Georgia Tech ALUMNI weave"....i really had nothing to do w/ these projects other than lending a hand occasionally.
sorry about that - it's been corrected.
all the images bring up pictures of the PS1 installation for me. anyone else?
Wow - All of them are beautiful, but I love the wood one best. Its integration into the atrium as a curtain, then top and bottom engaging the floor as a bench - gorgeous, and functional, and the material is friendly to hand (or rear end, as it were).
Actually I don't really see any relation to Sur. These pieces seem to involve a repeating element that can be mass produced, but with a quirk that allows for customization. Sur seems to be much less about a repeated unit.
I meant when I click on the thumbnails all the images link to the Sur installation, not the GT images
joe - you need to clear your browser's cache.
The work coming out of the school is outstanding. Its too bad there isnt any photos of the details. The metal brackets that fix the chair wall to the atrium knee walls are amazing. Everyone outdid themselves with these efforts. It should be noted that weave's significant other worked on the beautiful green peice of eye candy. Bravo.
Impressive work... Makes me want to go back there to see how things have changed since 98. Congrats to GT for being ahead of Diaz Alonzo :). Is it an undergrad or a master sutdio?
Now -this- is cool stuff for architecture students to do, abstract, but with some purpose and potential.
Very nice!
French,
it's a graduate course seperate from studio. the students were fabricating during their thesis, if you can believe it!
there were some undergrads that got roped into helping out during fabrication, though.
Wow. Well designed and well built. What an experience that must have been! Whomever was a part that project (as a student or anyone to jumped in to help in the end) is very lucky.
ouuuuu.... im so jelous. these look awsome. unnnt the plastic. HOT HOT HOT! well done fuckers!
excellent work, was there a primary software tool used for this work?
much better than the SUR shit. Finally one can see some convergence between digital design, manufacturing and final use.
Congrats guys ! great work !
There was no primary software. We used whatever was suitable and available on campus. My group (aluminum canopy) experimented with Autocad, FormZ, Lamina, Rhino, 3D Viz, Inventor, even Illustrator for patterning. The end product was generated by Rhino and Autocad.
i'll add some public kudos for the group as well - although i'll note that the whole endeavor took waaaay too much time for a 'mere' seminar. putting aside how much they all learned and what they accomplished, the fact that two of them didn't finish until this summer is....well....interesting.
on a side note, monica won't be back this year, but nadir will be taking her place. she is with child (sometime this fall) and is sticking closer to home....
It is true that it took too much time, but what is the most important? Is it not to try to go beyond and further? We pushed the limit of the software we used, we pushed also the router and there is many reasons that we were short on time (time schedule, access to the machine...)
Finally, it is not for the grade or for Monica, it was for us and against ourself. Pushing our limits. That's why even when school ended we continued in order to accomplish what we started.
And we won't stop...
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