Some pictures of our latest DS10 tutorial session. Less than 10 days before the final jury.
Above: Amazing IKEA-like construction manual for Marina Karamali‘s time bank headquarters in Athens, Greece.
Above: A building made of sand, wind and cow-blood by Jack Munro
Above: a growing and spiralling Tech-Hub in London from Chris Ingram
Cosmogony, as in the coming into existence, is a network of collaboration and participation in the city of burning man. Cosmogony is based on 50 000 components (10 variations of them) which will be given to 50 000 burners and their interaction will enable the social phenomenon of participation. People have their own freedom to make their own creations. Creative participation is the only constraint to make this project work.
People receive one single component with their ticket to the festival. The project is enabled only when the people intermingle with each other. The assembly process can be interesting and fun. It also invites curiosity. It’s manipulation does not always indicate any particular use or any specific location. The beauty of the potential structure(s) is that no one knows where it will appear, it isn’t organized and it just grows. What is suggested is the direct interaction of humans.
A manual of directions for possible structures to be made will be given to burners as a start point. A variety of scales, from a chair, to a bed, to a dancing platform to a mega structure. The aim of this project regardless of one’s physical capabilities, skills, interests or geographical location is to engage in the creation of a mega structure by adding their component to it. A structure made by everyone that belongs to everyone. The assembly process is fast and unpredictable as the human’s creativity cannot be controlled . A series of experiments for the potentials of the manipulation of this system was tested by inviting a several people to create forms out of these components. The bigger scale will be tested in burning man city.
When the festival will be over, the burners will be able to disassemble the structure and take their components back home.
You can follow the blog at: http://burningmanproject.wordpress.com/
Above is my submission for 2012 Burning Man Art Grants.
Black Rock Market is an inflatable structure made entirely out of thick polyethylene membrane which is dug into the sand. After it is inflated from underneath it emerges from the ground creating a spectacular event to watch. It uses sand as an anchor, hence no additional support is required. Sand is used for shading as well (membrane is covered with a sticky material in areas where shading is required and so sand sticks to the membrane, creating very beautiful natural shading)
Market provides fresh vegetables to the visitors (grown in the greenhouse area) and other refrigerated food (refrigerated in sand refrigerators which use evaporative cooling and are hung from the ceiling). All this in exchange for goods which the visitors bring. These are stored in a storage area in order to be sold next year to buy seeds and to cover the expenses of running a market.
There is also a communal area in the central courtyard and a hanging net above it for relaxation.
I hope you enjoy the project!
Some pictures of our last tutorial. Very exciting models and drawings ! Hand-in of interim portfolio this Tuesday. Good luck everyone !
Below are pictures of our DS10 End of Term “Cross-Crit” in which tutors from other Diploma Studios at Westminster University join as critics along with external guests.
Thank you so much to Dusan Decermic (ArcLab), Anthony Boulanger (AYArchitect), Magnus Larsson (magnuslarsson.com), Pablo Zamorano (pablozamorano.com), Louise Mackie (Warm Babies), Karl Kjelstrup-Johnson (Skin Graph) and Adam Holloway (PLP Architecture) for taking the time to come and give very helpful comments !
Students now have until the 24th January 2012 to complete their Burning Man Proposal!
Above: Michael Clarke‘s Fluorescent Tube Weave Night Club
Above: Jack Munro‘s Salt-Solidified Sand-Dunes live demonstration
Above: Magnus Larsson and Louise Mackie commenting a Salt-Solidified Sand Shell
Above: Kayleigh Dickson‘s Pin Induced Desert Crack Formation
Above: Natasa Christou‘s Collaborative Popsicle Assembly Structures
Above: Megan Sadler‘s Tensile Fabric Soft Resting Space
Below are several pictures from our last tutorials.
Thank you very much to Pablo Zamorano and Nacho Marti for their great presentation on the Expandable Surface Pavilion AA-Emtech Masters project.
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Above: Natasa Christou‘s Popsicles Structure
Above: Megan Sadler‘s Tensile Landscape
Above: Maria Valente‘s Arduino-controlled undulating fabric machine.
Above: Presentation and discussion with Pablo Zamorano and Nacho Marti
Below is a slideshow of our last two weeks’ tutorial and the great lecture from the Architects of WarmBaby explaining the making of the Wet Dreams Pavillion at the Burning Man Festival.
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Above: Luka Kreze‘s strategy for Burning Man using plastic bags and air.
Above: Emma Whitehead‘s Vacuumed balls and Balloons
Above: Anam Hasan‘s Ecotect Studies of Solar Balloons
Below is a slideshow of our first Pin-Up (6th October 2011). Students mainly looked at two experiments from either Frei Otto or Buckminster Fuller in both digital and analogue ways. Next step: Re-visiting these experiments with your own techinques and ideas, keep up the good work DS10 !
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Above: Jack Munro doing some magic with sand and holes in a box (inspired by Frei Otto)
Above: Results – Almost immediate formation of cells from the sand falling through the holes
Above: Carolyne Butler showing her first experiment based on Frei Otto’s wet wool threads system.
Above: Chris Ingram‘s nicely formatted Portfolio
Above: Nice little model of branching threads by Chris Mount
