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.
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 DS10 “cross-crit” with the other tutors of Westminster School of Architecture and invited external critics.
Thank you very much to Jeanne Sillett, William Firebrace, Gabby Shawcross, Lawrence Friesen, Gennaro Senatore and David Andreen for your very helpful feedback !
Above: Joe Magri showing his constrained laser-cut plywood sheet
Above: Maria Valente shows how water vibrates under sound waves
Above: Natasa Christou‘s Popsicles Bomb
Above: Antony Joury showing his Solar Still Toilets and Kangaroo/Fabric Experiments
Above: Jack Munro showing his Solidified Sand and loose fabric strategy
Above: Chris Mount’s Tree Telephone
Above: Anam Asan‘s light sensor activated inflating bin liners.
Below is a slideshow of our tutorials today.
Keep up the good work towards our first crit next Thursday!
It will be the end of Brief 1, Learn and beginning of Brief 2 Burn in which you will develop your research into a 1:1 functional structure for Burning Man.
Above: Carolyn Butler‘s green straws Geodesic dome with unfolded pattern
Above: Maria Valente‘s accoustic wave surfaces through Mathematica
Above: Antony Joury‘s weaving surfaces physical model and GH/Kangaroo model
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 !
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
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