SCI-Arc Gallery presents Voussoir Cloud, a site-specific installation by San Francisco based architecture and design practice IwamotoScott in collaboration with Buro Happold.
Opening reception: Friday, August 8, 7-9pm. Bustler Events
really a beautiful thing. i'd love to know more about the assembly process. i understand the making of the units, but then is it just a matter of marshalling lots of hand labor to attach them together?
beautiful surface study. however- what exactly does this do? formally, it suggests a great load bearing capicity, but it does nothing more than support itself. do the shapes actually suggest a load transfer? of is the arrangement purely aesthetic?
To respond to questions above: yes it definitely involved 'marshalling lots of hands' (belonging to a great team of individuals from SCIArc IwamotoScott and Buro Happold, credited on the wall at the exhibition); the material is about 1/32" so merely supporting itself at the spans achieved was no easy task; and yes, the pattern's module size, distribution density and positioning is related to the internal stress within the surface of the vaults -- you can see ribs emerge within the surface (where flat sides of certain modules align) and more dense closed conditions where forces collect in the column/feet and vault edges.
There will be a set of drawings from the design development/production process in the gallery by the opening time, for those who make it to the exhibit. For those who can't make it, those plus install pics will be posted to IwamotoScott's website and/or flickr photostream.
Looks great --- but one thing realy make me wonder see , when I first published 3dh , the first halve year in each discussion , there was a crowd of one or two, asking :"how do you keep the rain out".
I see thimgs progressed, and new structures are not anymore met with bad jokes by bored trolls only looking for a chance to project their own screwed image onto others minds -- it is great to see that now you can publish a great project, and not be met by jokers replies , not be hung out as some wierd guy , just becaurse some settled academic or bone head DIY wannabe need a victim to harras.
I am happy that architecture discussions are not as infected as 11 years ago.
Still I wonder if this structure cover more than the shell --- it is difficult to se from the images , if the "mass" reach into the geometrics, the reson I ask is that I want to kind of registre what sort of structural options this idea configure.
at first, i thought 'this is an anomaly and a false'. how unrealistic it is to have all the members to be different beside all the inefficiency of labor fabricating. they must have forgotten all the teachings of modernism, of the expression of structural truth. from scott's comment however, i noticed the structural ribs, and i love it! i remember reading about kafka's comment in an architecture journal that true reality is always unrealistic. putting aside my personal asthetic preference, thank you for putting together a concept and realizing it. however, i am not so sure how it might be translated to the scale of airport. the atmosphere created seems to be more suitable in intimate scale, like a cover of a walkway as a landscape feature. i do have a question for you scott by the way. did you guys feel that there had been an invisible red string attached between you two?
very happy to see this - the light, the material, the structure, the process! thank you so much for your work. this has really gotten me thinking, wondering, dreaming. so beautiful!
This project is cool on so many scales: From the overall effect of filtered light to the re-conception of the compressive masonry tectonic, also a really innovative construction method that re-thinks typical CAM fabrication. (Read more about this last bit @ www.biosarch.com)
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That is really beautiful. Is it made of paper?
765: 'PaperWood' actually, a micro thin wood veneer laminated with a couple layers of paper backing.
Gorgeous. Congratulations.
beautiful!
really a beautiful thing. i'd love to know more about the assembly process. i understand the making of the units, but then is it just a matter of marshalling lots of hand labor to attach them together?
beautiful surface study. however- what exactly does this do? formally, it suggests a great load bearing capicity, but it does nothing more than support itself. do the shapes actually suggest a load transfer? of is the arrangement purely aesthetic?
cloud?
rain, rain
go away
come again
some other day
definitely will go check it out
To respond to questions above: yes it definitely involved 'marshalling lots of hands' (belonging to a great team of individuals from SCIArc IwamotoScott and Buro Happold, credited on the wall at the exhibition); the material is about 1/32" so merely supporting itself at the spans achieved was no easy task; and yes, the pattern's module size, distribution density and positioning is related to the internal stress within the surface of the vaults -- you can see ribs emerge within the surface (where flat sides of certain modules align) and more dense closed conditions where forces collect in the column/feet and vault edges.
There will be a set of drawings from the design development/production process in the gallery by the opening time, for those who make it to the exhibit. For those who can't make it, those plus install pics will be posted to IwamotoScott's website and/or flickr photostream.
Are the modules regularized in some way (repeated) or is each one custom generated for its specific location?
Each module (2300 or so) is unique; and, there's no reason (besides cost) it couldn't be done in steel or titanium...
presumably it could be scaled to ... whatever. obviously there would be additional design considerations involved.
Looks great --- but one thing realy make me wonder see , when I first published 3dh , the first halve year in each discussion , there was a crowd of one or two, asking :"how do you keep the rain out".
I see thimgs progressed, and new structures are not anymore met with bad jokes by bored trolls only looking for a chance to project their own screwed image onto others minds -- it is great to see that now you can publish a great project, and not be met by jokers replies , not be hung out as some wierd guy , just becaurse some settled academic or bone head DIY wannabe need a victim to harras.
I am happy that architecture discussions are not as infected as 11 years ago.
Still I wonder if this structure cover more than the shell --- it is difficult to se from the images , if the "mass" reach into the geometrics, the reson I ask is that I want to kind of registre what sort of structural options this idea configure.
at first, i thought 'this is an anomaly and a false'. how unrealistic it is to have all the members to be different beside all the inefficiency of labor fabricating. they must have forgotten all the teachings of modernism, of the expression of structural truth. from scott's comment however, i noticed the structural ribs, and i love it! i remember reading about kafka's comment in an architecture journal that true reality is always unrealistic. putting aside my personal asthetic preference, thank you for putting together a concept and realizing it. however, i am not so sure how it might be translated to the scale of airport. the atmosphere created seems to be more suitable in intimate scale, like a cover of a walkway as a landscape feature. i do have a question for you scott by the way. did you guys feel that there had been an invisible red string attached between you two?
amazing work IwamotoScott -
very happy to see this - the light, the material, the structure, the process! thank you so much for your work. this has really gotten me thinking, wondering, dreaming. so beautiful!
wow, this is touching, wonderful!
This project is cool on so many scales: From the overall effect of filtered light to the re-conception of the compressive masonry tectonic, also a really innovative construction method that re-thinks typical CAM fabrication. (Read more about this last bit @ www.biosarch.com)
Don't miss the discussion of Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott with Eric Owen Moss at the SCI-Arc Gallery this Friday night, Aug 15, 7pm!! Details
If you can't make it to LA yourself, watch SCI-Arc's live broadcast of the discussion at www.sciarc.edu/live
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