Week 12 we had cross course at school, from Tuesday until Thursday.
We joined different courses.
Cross Course: Getting your hands dirty. The course was about exploring using fabric to make a sculpture of plaster.
Elisabeth, Gustavo
The process:
1. Rigid part (wood)
Timber frames was distributed for us as a starting point to assemble and adapt it to our ideas. We type over all sides and edges that was into contact with plaster, it is very important to keep the water inside the frame.
2. Flexible part (fabric)
Fabric has a different kind of properties, flexible and stretchy fabrics has a tendency to expand when filled with plaster, so our focus on the begging was rigid fabrics.
We beginning with a pre-made pattern that we printed on paper and adapt to the design depending to our needs. The next step was to place our pattern on the fabric, cut and assembled them using sewing machine. For subsequent design we draw a geometry in Rhino, to decide how to section it up. We used the application’s surface unfolding commands to produce the pattern and add seams.
We fixed the fabric mould to the wood formwork and filled it with plaster.
3. Demoulding
Depending on the geometry and thickness of the panel it takes more time to dry, the longer the cast is in the model, the better.
Elisabeth's work in the cross course, getting your hands dirty
Process:
Result:
Cross Course: BAUMARKT Collecting and evaluating unused material and setting-up a material storage.
The issue is although we have a huge space in the hall, we waste to much space at the same time. So how to use recycled materials to organize a new storage in the hall is our main design intention in this course.
Praewa, Han, Hanne
Cross Course: SCALE
Going throught scale from the long rope-making building to human body. How can we relate them to each other? Why is it important to always go through the scale when we are doing architecture?
