Gathering Threads

 Study models using “gathering threads” of wire.

Point.Line.Plane

The exploration of from through the manipulation of points lines and planes.

Study one is limited to a king sized bed sheet(plane) and two PVC tubes(lines defined by their end points).
The model not bound to any origin strategies were explored that involve movement, light, and sequencing.

Study two adds a third PVC rod parallel to the existing pair.
Continuing the previous investigation while adding ideas of inversion and deployment.

Study three adds yet another line.
Creating a closed system and exploring the way torque, tension, and repulsion play a role in the lines and the resulting form of the plane.

Study four explores the effects of pretension in a line ie. creating a set curve.

Efforts were made to create volume and enclosure.

Extrusions : Thomas Heatherwick

Aluminum benches without fixtures or fittings, which have been produced by the world’s largest extrusion machine. The pieces each have a unique, dramatic form that combines the back, seat and legs into one element. Eye candy.

material analysis:stress-enclosure

Using a single King sized bed sheet, 1/2″ PVC tubing  and zip-ties the Veggie Bandits began to experiment with different spacial configurations. Finding a wide range of conditions, we began to document the amount of enclosure offered by each particular structural arrangement. Here are a few graphs displaying our findings.

visual fodder

roof top

Site: An Investigation on Figure Ground

Scenario I; Underpass

Scenario II;Roof top

Scenario III; Shearwall-Shearwall

Garden Walk

Brooklyn backyards

(working) MANIFESTO

(Sut)Studio Manifesto
Dragana Zoric_Mark Parsons

This collaborative project approaches architecture in the context of landscape, exploring the potential of building: it’s form, meaning, and evolution.

Program is defined as an urban gardening system; in theory the garden will be a response to a charged site waiting for architectural intervention.  For example, a missing memory that wants to be reprogrammed.  We are concerned with the urban void latent with programmatic preference.

The garden structures are sited in the urban-scape existing in places of erasure, crisis, and rupture with the intent of filling and stitching so as to create both an environmental and architectural growth.  The design is conscious of the social relevance, ecological challenges, and spatial ramifications of this urban gardening system.

Isobel Herbold, Dave Irwin, Katherine Kania, Michael Dolatowski

(URB) GARDEN SYSTEM

I.  PROGRAM: Urban garden system
A.  Why?
B.  Typologies
C.  Growth: filling, suture

II.  SITE: urban void
A.  Rupture
B.  Erasure
C.  Crisis

III.  PATTERNING SYSTEM

IV.  TECHNIQUE, ASSEMBLY, DEPLOYMENT

V.  MATERIALITY

Mr. Woods

 

  

 Lebbeus Woods ’ hand has been crafting conceptual thought in the realm of architecture for years. Arguably one of the most influential persons to write and depict reactionary architecture; Woods takes on compelling situations such as  the rebuilding of Sarajevo- being bombed to rubble this past decade as well as the hypothetical draining of the East River.