Day_3+4_GROUP_o1

This weekend we had a visit from Mads Møller from MAPT architects, who chalenged our design in different ways, ways which will later be described.

Saturday started by building a structure of our components - design since day o2. The structure was by first impression flawles. Mads Møller wanted for us to use some of our knowledge from day_o1. The goal for the group was to design a "flexible" piece of metal, making it possible for our structure to be mechanic. This would make it possible for the structure to change, when influenced by an external force.
The "flexible" piece of metal, designed in collaboration with Mads Møller.

After testing our new found "flexible" metal, we chose to work with the rigid "sexless" pieces of metal. By doing so, experimenting with the different length of the metal, to make our structure. The reason for doing so, was that the group did not think the structure would be stable enough in bigger measure. The group still decided on the metal pieces from day_o1, as a metal skin for one of the sides of our structure(the one with squares).
Then we continued building our structure, but we found that it had some problems, so we had to rethink our way of construction. After rethinking our contruction, we ended up with what you see in the following pictures. Imagine this 4-5 meters long and maybe 2 meters high?? And check out the voronoi-structure and curvature?? We don't believe you would have imagined this coming out of a pile of junk:D

day_04 | GROUP_02

As we continued our work on our surface consisting of a number of aluminium circles connected by wires, we recognized that the project had to take a different direction to be realizable and explore the full potential of the joints.

We found a new way to connect the circles: Shapes designed to hold a circle each, cut out of a latex sheet by the laser cutter. A trial-and-error-approach was used to find the optimal shape. Each of the latex shapes has to be connected to six other latex sheets to form a surface. The material stretches, which provides a flexible, yet stable surface.

A new problem soon emerged, though: Connecting the latex shapes. We tried different solutions, and ended up designing a whole new component to be placed as an interlocking joint between the latex shapes, as shown in the photo below.



We went through a process of testing different component designs, and ended up with the design to the right in the picture below.



The components are made of acrylic glass as shown below.

day_03 | GROUP_04 [pictures]

day_03 | GROUP_04

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As our “work” at day 2 illustrated, we sought that we had the joint - But no, that wasn’t the case. We want to use acrylic sheets in different colors, but the strength in the acrylic sheets connected with our joint solution didn’t work – IT BROKE. We then worked with different solutions that could solve the problem. The uploaded pictures tell the story about our little Joint that broke but then evolved to a final and beautiful Joint.

day_02 | GROUP_04

Hello World

Group 4 is back at day 2 and we have progressed in or joint workshop. We uploaded some pictures that illustrate our progress in the joint. We still don’t have a general concept because we want to solve our joint problems first. A bit short, but our pictures will tell the story better.

day_02-GROUP 01

Hey Everyone

Day one was a day of play and conceptual work, now its time to get a bit more serious. As previously stated we worked with a piece of metal with worked as a joint/component all by it self. Today we started working with its "sexless" budy, that needed a joint in order to be made into a structure. Designing this joint, was our main goal of the day.
The day started by the group splitting up in two teams, one who focused on tying up loose ends from day_01, and the other forcused on what our main goal of this projekt was, what should our end product be? and designing the joints.The work continued with the squares, here we tried to se what happened if we used an external force on the grid.As you can see affecting the grid with an external force, makes it bulge an interact, depending on the force.
Just another pictore of the grid.

The Joint that was designed this day, was only conceptual, but we got to see that it was possible to make a stable structure yet flexible. Below is a couple of pictures of a smal conceptual model. In the upcomming weekend we will continue the work with designing the joint, and making a big structure out of junk for you to see.

day_01 | GROUP_04

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our first concept involved a combination between the static waste materials and a dynamic system. We got our inspiration from the wheels of old trains and tried to combine some static components whit dynamic movements from the system. After some time, we realized that the idea did not focus on the Join, but instead on our general concept.

We turned 180 degrees around and made different Joints that could combine metal poles. Our concept will introduce rule based Joints, that can connect with each other in different collaborations. The first pictures of our joints illustrate both the Joint and the connection between two poles. Later on, our pictures will evolve and give a more general understanding of our concept and ideas with the different Joints.

We love Waste!

Several Joints.

A Joint.