we made some form-finding experiments with viscous materials, next week we will go to the hooke park to carry on this material system research in depth for 7 days-hard working schedule. There is no internet and cellphones are not working in hooke park by the way, almost 5 hours car-distance away from the city...wish me luck!
oh and the people there, they are vegatarians..no meat at all!!!
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there's a girl in my current studio working with viscous materials (so far several types of rubber, some silicon, and cheese for similar experiments, but i haven't seen anything so far like this. what's the material, if you don't mind giving up some secrets?
interesting title. reminds me of andrew kudless, a very cool alma mater of your own school. probs you know of him, but for those who don't...
material systems
It reminds me a projet of Toyo Ito who exploited similar system to obtain large span and open, free space. Can you tell us how you apply in your projet? Perhaps being vicous, the system will be less rigid...
eeeeuuuuwwwwww! so groady...
thank you for your comments,
we dont have a site or building project for this ptask. We are not going to make a "banana" shaped building (as our tutors say) :) after this research. we used different kind of viscous materials like latex,glues and even caramel but this one was the "resin" gave us really interesting results. From now on, we will try to test this material with this vertical movement by changing the distrubution of the material on the two slab surfaces to see any potentials like load bearing capacity,porosity etc...
we are using this model now as a chair by the way, it is really rigid after having frozen :)
more experiments and info cominggg after hooke park!
byes.
looks pretty interesting. Sounds like the hooke park retreat/charrette will be rewarding.
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