Exploration Charette + Workshop
My Style: Form-finding + Non-arbitrary architecture
Design proposal
This style of designing involves taking the element of finding forms through a materials properties and how it's influenced by the laws of physics and combining it with the blurring of the boundary between the inside and outside.
Introduction
In this lesson you will be combining elements of both material architecture and threshold architecture, specifically form finding architecture and non-arbitrary architecture. You will be using the elements of form-finding architecture through material properties and the laws of physics and combining it with soft edges to blur the boundary between the inside and outside.
Hypothesis
By understanding thresholds as tools of spatial separation and material as tools of spatial creation, one will learn how to create forms using material properties and laws of physics. In addition, one will also learn how to blur the boundary between inside to outside vice versa. Essentially, one will be able to find the form created through the summation of blocks and fabrics.
For this lesson you will need:
Model Material:
- Building blocks
- Loose fabric (e.g Stockings)
- Thumb Tacks / Pushpins
- Cork board/cardboard/foam board as model base
Model Tools:
- Craft knife/scalpel/scissors
- A3 cutting mat
- Sticky tape
Aim
- To produce a model through material and threshold ideas
- To use blocks to find the form of the ceiling/ground
- To blur the boundary between inside to outside and outside to inside
Method
Step 1: Prepare 2 or more blocks of any shape or size, 20cm2or more of fabric, scissors, a base for push pins, and sticky tape
Note: 2 or more 10cm2 of fabric will do depending on how much fabric you have
Step 2: Place the blocks on the model base however you want; vertically or horizontally and either orderly or disorderly.
Step 3: Place the fabric/s on top of the blocks and push pin only to hold fabric down in places between blocks. Avoid creating tension in the fabric as much as possible by aiming to achieve a hill shaped surface made from the blocks and fabric.
Step 4: Cut holes in the fabric around the blocks to reveal the blocks and create a series of spaces.
Step 5: Once complete, photograph the model with different types of lightnings and at different angles and photoshop people in to demonstrate the use of the space.
Thomas Maynard's Style
