Expression ofInterest

performancematerial

Meg Varley, Bonnie Williams & Michelle Ho

timber /wood

e.g. flexible, movable, reactive

e.g. sturdy, solid, rigid

precedents

Voussoir Cloud I W A M O T O S C O T T

Voussoir Cloud’s design explores the unity of contrasting

constructional logics: the pure

compression of a vault with an ultra-light sheet material

reverseengineering

What we took away was the potential usage of the Kangaroo plugin to apply

various amounts of pressure to alter the form of the structure dramatically

wood loop /dukta Christian Kuhn

and Serge Lunin

wooden textilesElisa Strozyk

achim mengespavilions at stuttgart university

ourargument

Rather than manipulating the material into a desired form, we allowed the form to evolve as a

result of the material properties.

“... Ideas of joining materials without adding materials or processes, like in weaving, where the joining is in the material itself, rather than

in an additional binding agent, the joining is an extension of the material performance.”

grasshopper trials

proof of concept techniqueEach prototype encouraged a different type of movement eg. Rolling, twisting, bending, stretching etc.

moving forward

questions?