Project DescripBon
• According to this semester’s topic – “the wall transfigured”, we are required to explore the “memories resurrected, reconfigured, and propagated”. This is a 1:1 full size construcBon which is located in the second floor of Batmale Hall. Although our group did not have a specific name for our design, I named it as “spider web”
• The requirement of this model is secBoning. I had the idea from propeller. I made two circle as the connecBon. Then, I put different shape connected to the circle.
I had the idea from spiral staircases. So I aLached triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon and round
together to make a cumulaBve shape.
InspiraBon and Research
• Most of the quesBons Jerry posed during the brainstorming sessions had us tesBng designs with tessellaBons, and folding techniques . We also studies Ron Resch, Shigeru Ban, Original folding and the different users of material that go into construcBng planes and shadow effects.
Design Concept
• In our iniBal design, we planned to use wood, but through our prototyping we discovered that the wood would be very heavy and it would be difficult to archive our goal. With our design, we also wanted to emulate the Japanese original folding technique, so chipboard would be the most easily manipulated material we could use to create this intricate structure.
Ron Resch • The design was an example of his geometric development of
“the Space Curve as a Folded Edge”. The method of making the animated film turned out to be of historic importance. His credits include patents for “self-‐supporBng structural units” using tessellaBon techniques, as well as “geometric designs”
This is the first fixed simulator. According to the actual operaBon, we changed it during the
construcBon process.
During the processing, we found that it was difficult to make the “stars” unfolding. We tried to put balloons and tennis ball in the middle of the star, but it did not work.
Materials • Chip Board: 200 sq _ • U-‐Bolts: 7 • Steel Galvanized cord: 44_ • Anchor Bolts: 3 • Eye Hooks: 5 • 2*4: 2 • 2*2: 1 • Quick Links: 12 • Stucco Corner Piece: 1 • Fishing Line: 500 yards • Silver Acrylic Paint: 1 24oz
• 4-‐ 3/ 4 “ Hex Bolts • 22 Wire Cable Ferrules • 5 Large Stars – 4 _ • 8 Medium Stars – 3 _ • 11 Small Stars – 2 _ • 4 Square Stars – 1 _ • 41 Sheets of Chipboard • 200 sq _ • 24 cut triangles per piece • 608 Triangles • 28 squares • 636 total kit of parts
Conclusion
I ended up enjoying most of the construcBon process. Working as a group make things more easier. Although it was hard to gather team members to gather, it open my eyes to different ideas. And I find this class is more pracBcal than the boring textbook knowledge.